Without and Within: Victorian Mourning and Treatment of the Dead Main Menu Fleeing Death: Victorian Paranoia Concerning Public Health First Section Dying Well and Loved: At the Moment of Death and Mourning Second Section Wearing and Burying Death: Fashion, Mourning, and Public Displays of Death Third Section Up and Down the Stair with Burke and Hare: Body-Snatching Fourth Section Weird Science: Anatomical Use of the Dead Fifth Section Works Cited/Full-Texts/Further Readings

The House of Mourning

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Published in Hood's Magazine in 1844 this is a popular farce detailing the absurdity of preparing and becoming fashionable for Victorian funeral rites. Doing so, it becomes highly critical of the performance surrounding the dead, not for their expense, but rather that of the living. I bring our attention to this entry to show the satire that is actively anticipating our next section on mourning rites--the discomfort of some within the population at the objectification of the dead subjects for the sole purpose of public displays of grief. 

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