Death in the Victorian family / Pat Jalland
- Bib ID:
- 1419131
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jalland, Patricia
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
- xii, 464 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0198201885
- 0198208324 (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Evangelical Ideal of the 'Good Death'
- 2. The Revival and Decline of the Good Christian Death
- 3. Bad Deaths, Sudden Deaths, and Suicides
- 4. Death and the Victorian Doctors
- 5. Nurses, Consultants, and Terminal Prognoses
- 6. 'That Little Company of Angels': The Tragedies of Children's Deaths
- 7. Death in Old Age
- 8. In Search of the Good Death: Death in the Gladstone and Lyttelton Families 1835-1915
- 9. Funeral Reform and the Cremation Debate
- 10. The Funeral Week
- 11. Widows: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood
- 12. Widowers: Gendered Experiences of Widowhood
- 13. Christian Consolations and Heavenly Reunions
- 14. The Consolations of Memory
- 15. Rituals of Sorrow: Mourning-Dress and Condolence Letters
- 16. Chronic and Abnormal Grief: Queen Victoria, Lady Frederick Cavendish, and Emma Haden
- 17. 'A Solitude beyond the Reach of God or Man': Victorian Agnostics and Death.
- 18. Epilogue. After the Victorians: Social Memory, Spiritualism, and the Great War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-441) and index.
- Subject:
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- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Death -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
- Bereavement -- Great Britain
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1996
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