Rites of Passage
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A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House. 'Nobody knows more about everyday life in V...
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A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House. 'Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turning PointIn Rites of Passage, acclaimed historian Judith Flanders deconstructs the intricate, fascinating, and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain.Through stories from the sickbed to the deathbed, from the correct way to grieve and to give comfort to those grieving to funerals and burials and the reaction of those left behind, Flanders illuminates how living in nineteenth-century Britain was, in so many ways, dictated by dying.This is an engrossing, deeply researched and, at times, chilling social history of a period plagued by infant death, poverty, disease, and unprecedented change. In elegant, often witty prose, Flanders brings the Victorian way of death vividly to life.
Detaljer
Forlag
Picador
ISBN
9781509816972
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
352
Udgivelsesdato
29-02-2024
Format
Hardback
Varenr.
3163300
EAN nr.
9781509816972
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
160
Bredde (mm)
240
Længde (mm)
32
Vægt (g)
584