Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning
(2008)
Book Chapter
Martens, B. (2008). Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning. In S. Friedman, E. Guiliano, A. Humpherys, N. McKnight, & M. Timko (Eds.), Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction (223-248). New York: Ams Press, Inc
As an object of macabre fascination, the Paris morgue is without parallel in the Victorian imagination. This article explores the representation of visits to the morgue in Dickens’s Uncommercial Traveller and in Browning’s dramatic monologue “Apparen... Read More about Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning.