Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914

Informationen zum Autor Julie-Marie Strange is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. Klappentext A 2005 study of expression of grief among the working class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Zusammenfassung Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class in Victorian and Edwardian Britain! 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! and commemoration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: revisiting the Victorian and Edwardian celebration of death; 2. Life, sickness and death; 3. Caring for the corpse; 4. The funeral; 5. Only a pauper whom nobody owns: reassessing the pauper burial; 6. Remembering the dead: the cemetery as a landscape for grief; 7. Loss, memory and the management of feeling; 8. Grieving for dead children; 9. Epilogue: death, grief and the Great War; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Marie Strange, Julie-Marie Strange
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2005
• EAN: 9780521838573
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83857-3
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories; Cambridge Social and Cultural; Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology