Dickens and the Business of Death
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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.
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