The Victorian Celebration of Death

The Victorian Celebration of Death
Title The Victorian Celebration of Death PDF eBook
Author James Stevens Curl
Publisher Sutton Pub Limited
Pages 330
Release 2000
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780750938730

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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.

A Celebration of Death

A Celebration of Death
Title A Celebration of Death PDF eBook
Author James Stevens Curl
Publisher Macmillan Reference USA
Pages 444
Release 1980
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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Death, Ritual, and Bereavement

Death, Ritual, and Bereavement
Title Death, Ritual, and Bereavement PDF eBook
Author Ralph Houlbrooke
Publisher Routledge
Pages 211
Release 2020-01-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1000026914

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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.

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914
Title Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914 PDF eBook
Author Julie-Marie Strange
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 306
Release 2005-07-25
Genre History
ISBN 1139445871

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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.

Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture

Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture
Title Relics of Death in Victorian Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Deborah Lutz
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 263
Release 2015-01-15
Genre History
ISBN 1107077443

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This literary and cultural study explores the practice in nineteenth-century Britain of treasuring objects that had belonged to the dead.

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture

The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture
Title The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture PDF eBook
Author Dina Khapaeva
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 265
Release 2017-03-06
Genre History
ISBN 0472130269

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Popular culture has reimagined death as entertainment and monsters as heroes, reflecting a profound contempt for the human race

Machine of Death

Machine of Death
Title Machine of Death PDF eBook
Author Ryan North
Publisher Machines of Death LLC
Pages 468
Release 2010
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0982167121

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MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.