An edition of Great Deaths (2000)

Great deaths

grieving, religion, and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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Great deaths

grieving, religion, and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
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English
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331

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Subjects

Celebrities, Death, Funeral rites and ceremonies, History, Mourning customs, Psychological aspects of Death, Social conditions, Psychological aspects, Death, psychological aspects, Great britain, social conditions, Death and burial, Sudden death

Places

Great Britain

Times

19th century, 20th century

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Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
March 15, 2001, British Academy
in English
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Great deaths: grieving, religion, and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
2000, Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1 The paths of glory lead but to the grave': Approaching the Deaths
of the Famous
2 'The last great Englishman is low': Burying the Duke of
Wrellington 28
3. 'O God our help in ages past': The Churches and National
Mourning 56
4. Death and the City: Commemoration, Identity and Religiosity 94
5. Martyrs of Empire: Livingstone and Gordon 136
6. The Shades of Westninster: Death and Politicians 154
7. 'It was too soon to die': Death and the Royal Family, 1861-1892 192
8. The Ending of Eras: Victoria and E.dward VII zz2
9. 'A vast dumb tenderness': Prospect and Retrospect 59
Appendix: The Organization of Funerals z87
Bibiography 294
Index 3 3.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.

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A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
393/.0941
Library of Congress
GT3390.5.G7 W65 2000, GT3390.5.G7W65 2000

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Pagination
ix, 331 p., [12] p. of plates :
Number of pages
331

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OL3964934M
ISBN 10
0197262384
LCCN
2001269746
OCLC/WorldCat
46807834, 46720574
Library Thing
5412363
Goodreads
2574153

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