Dickens and the Business of Death

The first ever full-length study exploring how Dickens's fiction engaged with, responded to, and even exploited Victorian attitudes to death.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Profitable undertakings and deathly business; 2. Revaluing The Old Curiosity Shop; 3. Death and property in Bleak House; 4. Parts and parting in Our Mutual Friend; Conclusion. Stealing Dickens; Bibliography.

About the author

Claire Wood is a Research Associate in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Summary

In this fascinating, full-length study surveying the diverse ways in which a living was made from death, Claire Wood examines Dickens's creative works, including The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, within the context of his attitude towards the Victorian commodification of death.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Wood, Claire (University of York) Wood, Wood Claire
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9781107098633
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09863-3
• No. of pages: 241
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture; Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; English, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Sociology: Death & Dying