Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel

1. Introduction
Jolene Zigarovich

2. “A Laboriously Constructed Skeleton”: Retrospection, Loss, and Obituary in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
Jolene Zigarovich

3. “It Sounds as Hollow as a Coffin”: The Empty Tomb in Bleak House

Jolene Zigarovich

4. Wilkie Collins, Narrativity, and Epitaph
Jolene Zigarovich

5. Memorialization and Endlessness in Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend
Jolene Zigarovich

6. Edwin Drood: The Preeminent Missing Body
Jolene Zigarovich

Avainsanat: Literature, Literary History, Literary Theory, British and Irish Literature