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020			_a9781107491557
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi _c: ZBD0317 _d: 09/01/2024
082			_a823.8 WOO
100			_aWood, Claire.
245			_aDickens and the business of death _c/ Claire Wood.
260			_a, Cambridge _b: Cambridge University Press _c, 2015.
300			_ax, 225 pages _b: illustrations _c; 24 cm.
365			_b1849
520			_a"Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequences of treating the corpse as an object of speculation rather than sympathy. At the same time, he was fascinated by those who made a living from death and recognised that his authorial profits implicated him in the same trade. This book explores how Dickens turned mortality into the stuff of life and art as he navigated a thriving culture of death-based consumption. It surveys the diverse ways in which death became a business, from body-snatching, undertaking, and joint-stock cemetery companies, to the telling and selling of stories. This broad study offers fresh perspectives on death in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, and discusses lesser-known works and textual illustrations"
650			_aBegravningsseder historia
650			_aDeath care industry
650			_aEconomics
650			_aHistory
700			_aClaire Wood
942			_cBOOK
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