Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun
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- ISBN 9781433115233
- Weight: 350g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2012
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century through the Great War. The first half of the book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to death and burial, including epitaph collections, burial reform documents, and fictional representations of burial and epitaph writing, especially in the novels of Charles Dickens. The second half studies the same discourse of burial, mourning, and epitaphs in select fiction, memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and poems produced in response to World War I in order to understand how writing about individual memorialization changed in post-war British literature and culture.
Heather J. Kichner is Associate Professor of English at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, where she teaches developmental writing, English as a second language, composition, and literature. She has been studying cemeterial literature and the discourse of memorialization for ten years.
