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 Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of Metamorphosis and The Turning Point
In 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.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 29 februari 2024
Hoofdauteur: Judith Flanders
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador
Product breedte: 160 mm
Product hoogte: 32 mm
Product lengte: 240 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 158 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 35 mm
Verpakking lengte: 240 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 591 g
EAN: 9781509816972