| Description |
1 online resource (x, 294 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 6 |
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Cambridge social and cultural histories ; 6.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-289) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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Bereavement -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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Poverty -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Death, Grief, Bereavement.
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Bereavement -- Social aspects
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Death -- Social aspects
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Poverty -- Social aspects
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Tod
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Bestattung
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Trauer
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Armut
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511126158 |
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9780511126154 |
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0511125658 |
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9780511125652 |
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0511125291 |
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9780511125294 |
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9780511496080 |
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0511496087 |
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1280202920 |
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9781280202926 |
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0511199635 |
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9780511199639 |
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0511300212 |
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9780511300219 |
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9780521168625 |
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0521168627 |
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