Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870–1914Cambridge University Press, 2005 M07 25 - 294 pages 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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... moreover , reticent concerning her involvement in such texts or her re - creation of these narratives in a different context . This is not to suggest that we cannot write about grief , but , rather , to note that the words and deeds of ...
... moreover , reticent concerning her involvement in such texts or her re - creation of these narratives in a different context . This is not to suggest that we cannot write about grief , but , rather , to note that the words and deeds of ...
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... Moreover , in concentrating on the working man ( most of the autobiographies were authored by men ) , he neglects bereaved women and overlooks the poten- tial for friends and relations to turn to each other within domestic time and ...
... Moreover , in concentrating on the working man ( most of the autobiographies were authored by men ) , he neglects bereaved women and overlooks the poten- tial for friends and relations to turn to each other within domestic time and ...
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... moreover, inseparable from other cultural concepts such as health, hygiene, community, family and spirituality. Crucially, death is inextricable from notions of loss and bereavement. The term 'loss' is used to refer to the removal or ...
... moreover, inseparable from other cultural concepts such as health, hygiene, community, family and spirituality. Crucially, death is inextricable from notions of loss and bereavement. The term 'loss' is used to refer to the removal or ...
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... , Death in the Victorian Family , 7 , and Dollimore , Death , Desire and Loss , 63 . 69 Ariès , Hour of Our Death , 559–601 . 71 70 than analysed cultural change . Moreover , Ariès's 18 Death , Grief and Poverty in Britain , 1870–1914.
... , Death in the Victorian Family , 7 , and Dollimore , Death , Desire and Loss , 63 . 69 Ariès , Hour of Our Death , 559–601 . 71 70 than analysed cultural change . Moreover , Ariès's 18 Death , Grief and Poverty in Britain , 1870–1914.
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Julie-Marie Strange. 71 70 than analysed cultural change . Moreover , Ariès's definition of ' culture ' was tied to educated and wealthy elites and overlooked diffuse identities such as class , gender and ethnicity . The Hour of Our ...
Julie-Marie Strange. 71 70 than analysed cultural change . Moreover , Ariès's definition of ' culture ' was tied to educated and wealthy elites and overlooked diffuse identities such as class , gender and ethnicity . The Hour of Our ...
Contents
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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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