Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914With 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, and commemoration. This book, which draws on a broad range of sources, will be an invaluable contribution to an important area of social and cultural history. |
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Introduction revisiting the Victorian and Edwardian celebration of death | 1 |
Life sickness and death | 27 |
Caring for the corpse | 66 |
The funeral | 98 |
Only a pauper whom nobody owns reassessing the pauper burial | 131 |
Remembering the dead the cemetery as a landscape for grief | 163 |
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Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914 Volum 6 de Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories |
| Autor | Julie-Marie Strange |
| Editor | Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0521838576, 9780521838573 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 294 pàgines |
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