Buch, Englisch, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 754 g
Buch, Englisch, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 754 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-820832-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This enthralling book explores the experience of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830-1920. Victorian letters and diaries reveal a deep preoccupation with death because of a shorter life expectancy, a high death rate for infants and children, and a dominant Christian culture. Drawing upon the private correspondence, diaries and death memorial of fifty-five middle and upper class families, Pat Jalland shows us how dying, death and grieving were experience by Victorian families, and how the manner and rituals of death and mourning varied with age, gender, disease, religious belief, family size and class. She examines deathbed scenes, good and bad deaths, funerals and cremations, mourning rituals, widowhood, and the roles of religion and medicine.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
Weitere Infos & Material
- PART 1. DEATH AND DYING
- The Evangelical ideal of the 'Good Death'
- The Revival and Decline of the Good Christian Death
- Bad Deaths, Sudden Deaths, and Suicides
- Death and the Victorian Doctors
- Nurses, Consultants, and Terminal Prognoses
- 'That Little Company of Angels': The Tragedy of Children's Deaths
- Death in Old Age
- In Search of the Good Death: Death in the Gladstone and Lyttelton Families 1835-1915
- PART II. GRIEF AND MOURNING
- Introduction to Part II
- Funeral Reform and the Cremation Debate
- The Funeral Week
- Widows: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood
- Widowers: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood
- Christian Consolations and Heavenly Reunions
- The Consolations of Memory
- Rituals of Sorrow: Mourning-Dress and Condolence Letters
- Chronic and Abnormal Grief: Queen Victoria, Lady Frederick Cavendish, and Emma Haden
- 'A Solitude beyond the Reach of God or Man': Victorian Agnostics and Death
- Epilogue. After the Victorians: Social Memory, Spiritualism, and the Great War
- Notes
- Location of Manuscript Collections
- Index
