The Victorian Celebration Of Death

Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780750938730
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Celebration of Death written by James Stevens Curl and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Curl has fashioned an absorbing, lucid and entertaining book describing the Victorian response to the only certainty in life--death. It includes disposal of the dead, landscaped cemeteries funerals and more.

Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437966794
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Celebration of Death written by James Stevens Curl and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From humble working-class exequies to the massive outpourings of grief at the State funerals of Wellington and Queen Victoria herself, this book covers an immense canvas. It describes the change in sensibility that led to a new tenderness towards the dead; disposal of the dead as part of the great sanitary reforms of the epoch; the history of the urban cemeteries with their architecture and landscapes; the ephemera of death and dying (including wreaths, mourning-cards and jewelry, elaborate hearses crowned with ostrich-feather plumes, mourning-dress, and much more); State funerals as national spectacles; and the utilitarian reactions towards the end of the 19th century. Beautifully illustrated. Over 100 illustrations.

Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Celebration of Death written by James Stevens Curl and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Stevens Curl
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ISBN 13 : 9787240007914
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Victorian Celebration of Death: the Architect-ure and Planning of the 19th Century Necropolis written by James Stevens Curl and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie-Marie Strange
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139445871
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914 written by Julie-Marie Strange and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She illustrates the mourning practices of the working classes through chapters addressing care of the corpse, the funeral, the cemetery, commemoration, and high infant mortality rates. The book draws on a broad range of sources to analyse the feelings and behaviours of the labouring poor, using not only personal testimony but also fiction, journalism, and official reports. It concludes that poor people did not only use spoken or written words to express their grief, but also complex symbols, actions and, significantly, silence. This book will be an invaluable contribution to an important and neglected area of social and cultural history.

Author : Marilyn Chase
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375757082
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barbary Plague written by Marilyn Chase and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase’s fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today’s headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city’s Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.

Author : Ralph Houlbrooke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000026914
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Ritual, and Bereavement written by Ralph Houlbrooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s. This edited collection focuses on the death-bed, funerals, burials, mourning customs, and the expression of grief. The essays throw fresh light on developments which lie at the roots of present-day tendencies to minimize or conceal the most unpleasant aspects of death, among them the growing participation of doctors in the management of death-beds in the eighteenth century and the creation of extra-mural cemeteries, followed by the introduction of cremation in the nineteenth century. The volume also underlines the importance of religious belief, in helping the bereaved in past times. The book will appeal to students and academics of family and social history as well as history of medicine, religion and anthropology.

Author : Dina Khapaeva
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472130269
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture written by Dina Khapaeva and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

Author : Robin Paige
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425163993
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death at Gallows Green written by Robin Paige and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Death at Bishop's Keep, Kathryn Ardleigh captured the interest of detective Sir Charles Sheridan as they solved their first case together. Now the demise of a local constable and the disappearance of a child have the sleuthing couple on the trail of deadly greed and criminal mischief once again. And with the help of a shy woman who calls herself Beatrix Potter, Kate intends to uncover the sinister secrets of Gallows Green...

Author : Deborah Lutz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107077443
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Deborah Lutz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.