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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... rites, Jalland charts a complex history of grief where concepts of loss stretch from the onset of fatal illness to post-interment commemorative and memorial practices. Adopting the term 'Victorian' as a chronological tool, Jalland ...
... rites, Jalland charts a complex history of grief where concepts of loss stretch from the onset of fatal illness to post-interment commemorative and memorial practices. Adopting the term 'Victorian' as a chronological tool, Jalland ...
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... rites drew on communal networks of support whilst offering consolation through the affirmation of religious belief and the articulation of private and social memory.30 Post - interment ' rituals of sorrow ' ( such as indulgence in ...
... rites drew on communal networks of support whilst offering consolation through the affirmation of religious belief and the articulation of private and social memory.30 Post - interment ' rituals of sorrow ' ( such as indulgence in ...
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... Rites: Law and Ethics at the End of Life (London: Routledge, 1994), and F. Kamm, Morality, Mortality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). See K. Grandstrand Gervais, Redefining Death (Yale: Yale University Press, 1986), J. Choron ...
... Rites: Law and Ethics at the End of Life (London: Routledge, 1994), and F. Kamm, Morality, Mortality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996). See K. Grandstrand Gervais, Redefining Death (Yale: Yale University Press, 1986), J. Choron ...
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... rites of mourning ( cultural representations of bereavement ) identify those who have lost and provide the means for disposing of their dead in a meaningful way . The bereaved are usually defined as those who knew the deceased with a ...
... rites of mourning ( cultural representations of bereavement ) identify those who have lost and provide the means for disposing of their dead in a meaningful way . The bereaved are usually defined as those who knew the deceased with a ...
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... rites as an attempt by different social groups to contain and control death . Acknowledging the importance of group and individual welfare , some early anthropolo- gists shifted analytical emphasis towards the organisation of rites into ...
... rites as an attempt by different social groups to contain and control death . Acknowledging the importance of group and individual welfare , some early anthropolo- gists shifted analytical emphasis towards the organisation of rites into ...
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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