Death in the Victorian Family

AvPat Jalland,Australian National University) Jalland, Pat (Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences, Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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This enthralling book explores the experience of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830-1920. Victorian letters and diaries reveal a deep preoccupation with death because of a shorter life expectancy, a high death rate for infants and children, and a dominant Christian culture. Drawing upon the private correspondence, diaries and death memorial of fifty-five middle and upper class families, Pat Jalland shows us how dying, death and grieving were experience by Victorian families, and how the manner and rituals of death and mourning varied with age, gender, disease, religious belief, family size and class. She examines deathbed scenes, good and bad deaths, funerals and cremations, mourning rituals, widowhood, and the roles of religion and medicine.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-11-04
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:754 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:476
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198208327
Utmärkelser:Winner of 1997 New South Wales Premier's History Award

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This is a fascinating book, considering a very interesting topic at what ... is the period of our history which it finds its most enlightening form. Its strength lies in its detail and the picture of individual lives that it creates. This is a welcome addition to the history of the period.

Innehållsförteckning

PART 1. DEATH AND DYING ; The Evangelical ideal of the 'Good Death' ; The Revival and Decline of the Good Christian Death ; Bad Deaths, Sudden Deaths, and Suicides ; Death and the Victorian Doctors ; Nurses, Consultants, and Terminal Prognoses ; 'That Little Company of Angels': The Tragedy of Children's Deaths ; Death in Old Age ; In Search of the Good Death: Death in the Gladstone and Lyttelton Families 1835-1915 ; PART II. GRIEF AND MOURNING ; Introduction to Part II ; Funeral Reform and the Cremation Debate ; The Funeral Week ; Widows: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood ; Widowers: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood ; Christian Consolations and Heavenly Reunions ; The Consolations of Memory ; Rituals of Sorrow: Mourning-Dress and Condolence Letters ; Chronic and Abnormal Grief: Queen Victoria, Lady Frederick Cavendish, and Emma Haden ; 'A Solitude beyond the Reach of God or Man': Victorian Agnostics and Death ; Epilogue. After the Victorians: Social Memory, Spiritualism, and the Great War ; Notes ; Location of Manuscript Collections ; Index

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