Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914Cambridge University Press, 25.07.2005 - 294 Seiten 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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... Loss, memory and the management of feeling 194 8 Grieving for dead children 230 9 Epilogue: death, grief and the Great War Bibliography Index 263 274 290 Acknowledgements Lots of people have encouraged and supported the writing vii ...
... Loss, memory and the management of feeling 194 8 Grieving for dead children 230 9 Epilogue: death, grief and the Great War Bibliography Index 263 274 290 Acknowledgements Lots of people have encouraged and supported the writing vii ...
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... loss whilst overlooking the fluid meanings invested in notions of respectability and pauperism. Images of rampant commercialism and the horror of the pauper grave have attributed the Victorian celebration of death with a sense of unique ...
... loss whilst overlooking the fluid meanings invested in notions of respectability and pauperism. Images of rampant commercialism and the horror of the pauper grave have attributed the Victorian celebration of death with a sense of unique ...
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... loss stretch from the onset of fatal illness to post-interment commemorative and memorial practices. Adopting the term 'Victorian' as a chronological tool, Jalland acknowledges that attitudes towards death among the elite were far from ...
... loss stretch from the onset of fatal illness to post-interment commemorative and memorial practices. Adopting the term 'Victorian' as a chronological tool, Jalland acknowledges that attitudes towards death among the elite were far from ...
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... always represents an implicit analysis of one's own response to loss . Tarlow , Bereavement and Commemoration , 21 . Jalland , Death in the Victorian Family , 12 . — notes , the assumption that the attitudes of a Introduction 9.
... always represents an implicit analysis of one's own response to loss . Tarlow , Bereavement and Commemoration , 21 . Jalland , Death in the Victorian Family , 12 . — notes , the assumption that the attitudes of a Introduction 9.
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... loss . The lavish funeral , in this context , was not only an exercise in snobbery and an excuse for a party , but it also provided an adequate forum for the expression of mourning : grief was contained within the rituals surrounding ...
... loss . The lavish funeral , in this context , was not only an exercise in snobbery and an excuse for a party , but it also provided an adequate forum for the expression of mourning : grief was contained within the rituals surrounding ...
Inhalt
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2 Life sickness and death | 27 |
3 Caring for the corpse | 66 |
4 The funeral | 98 |
reassessing the pauper burial | 131 |
the cemetery as a landscape for grief | 163 |
7 Loss memory and the management of feeling | 194 |
8 Grieving for dead children | 230 |
death grief and the Great War | 263 |
Bibliography | 274 |
Index | 290 |
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