Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914 (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
306
Utgivningsdatum
2010-09-09
Förlag
Cambridge University Press
Medarbetare
Julie-Marie, Strange
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Volymtitel
Series Number 6 Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 18 mm
Vikt
449 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780521168625

Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914

av Julie-Marie Strange
Häftad,  Engelska, 2010-09-09
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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.
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Review of the hardback: '... this book has a lot to say in delineating working-class attitudes and behaviour and makes a sizeable contribution to our understanding of the subject.' Contemporary Review

Review of the hardback: 'It is impossible to read this book without being moved and caught up in the narrative of the pitiful, tragic, and often deplorable examples, which Strange uses to illustrate her arguments. the book is a highly effective academic treatise, base on a doctoral thesis, and with well constructed and clear points of principle and theory carefully expounded in the introduction.' Northern History

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Julie-Marie Strange is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Manchester.

Innehållsförteckning

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.

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