Introduction: lyrical matter 1. Infinite materiality: Keats, D. G. Rossetti and the Romantics 2. The miracle of ordinary things: Bronte and Wuthering Heights 3. The many faces of death masks: Dickens and Great Expectations 4. The elegy as shrine: Tennyson and 'In Memoriam' 5. Hair jewelry as congealed time: Hardy and Far from the Madding Crowd Afterword: death as death Bibliography.
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