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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... stories were not dominated by death . For Vincent , this indicated a capacity to survive experiences which , in the late twentieth century , would have a ' shattering effect ' on the personality and life of the bereaved . Vincent's ...
... stories were not dominated by death . For Vincent , this indicated a capacity to survive experiences which , in the late twentieth century , would have a ' shattering effect ' on the personality and life of the bereaved . Vincent's ...
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... story indicates an awareness that emotion was mediated through a gendered identity, although this line of enquiry was not pursued in the essay. Similarly, his assertion that family experience differentiates 'otherwise homogeneous social ...
... story indicates an awareness that emotion was mediated through a gendered identity, although this line of enquiry was not pursued in the essay. Similarly, his assertion that family experience differentiates 'otherwise homogeneous social ...
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... story of ostentation and expenditure sandwiched between , on the one hand , simplified pre - modern rural burial practices and , on the other , the tragedy of the Great War . Notably , post - war commemorative culture drew on the ...
... story of ostentation and expenditure sandwiched between , on the one hand , simplified pre - modern rural burial practices and , on the other , the tragedy of the Great War . Notably , post - war commemorative culture drew on the ...
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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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