ISBN:
9780511496080
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge social and cultural histories 6
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Erscheint auch als
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DDC:
306.9/0941/09034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1870-1940
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Geschichte
;
Gesellschaft
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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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Trauer
;
Tod
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Bestattung
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Großbritannien
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Großbritannien
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Electronic books
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Großbritannien
;
Tod
;
Trauer
;
Bestattung
;
Geschichte 1870-1940
Abstract:
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 2005 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Revisiting the Victorian and Edwardian celebration of death -- Life, sickness and death -- Caring for the corpse -- The funeral -- Only a pauper whom nobody owns: reassessing the pauper burial -- Remembering the dead: the cemetery as a landscape for grief -- Loss, memory and the management of feeling -- Grieving for dead children -- Death, grief and the Great War
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511496080
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511496080
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