The Coming Race--Funeral and Time
Lytton's 1871 utopic text seems to respond to Victoria's exuberant mourning period. Here the death is celebrated through the brief remembrance of the deceased member of the community. Rather than overt mourning, there is a brief ceremony, the body is cremated, and the mourners immediately return to daily life without being burdened by public mourning. I use Lytton to set a counter-narrative to the royal mourning paradigm.