Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead

Post-Mortem




I am focusing on the titular poem, "Post-Mortem," which highlights the social importance of using the unknown dead for medical dissections. This is a fascinating move in which these unknown, sometimes social outcasts, are lauded as providing a heroic service to their country and fellows. Published in 1896 as a standalone work by poet, Reginald Beckett.

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