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 Livery of Woe

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Here is another example of a magazine weighing in critically against the pervasive need to equate death with a public spectacle. The author highlights the cultural tension of turning the dead into an object that amplifies the social standing of the living during the mourning performance. 

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