Victorian Imag(in)ing of the Pagan Pyre: Frank Dicksee's 'Funeral of a Viking'
Victorians drew on imagery of Druid and Viking funeral pyres as a way of exploring alternative narratives of death and burial, generating a collective attention to what happened to a body after death. I set Frank Dicksee’s oil painting, 'Funeral of a Viking' (1893), against the background...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-12-01
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| Series: | 19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Online Access: | https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/795 |