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245 04 $aThe Victorian book of the dead /$cselected and edited by Chris Woodyard.
260 $aDayton, OH :$bKestrel Publications,$cc2014.
300 $axi, 345 pages :$bblack and white illustrations ;$c26 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : a deathbed, by Dickens -- "I am the Death Angel :" Victorian personifications of death -- A baby's coffin in the air : banshees, black dogs, and other harbingers of death -- Died of lizards : strange deaths from poisoned stockings to self-decapitation -- The trades of woe : undertakers, grave-diggers, and dead-men's razors -- Crape : its uses and abuses -- Fashions for the dead : life's vanities perpetuated in the costumes of the grave -- The corpse sat up : wakes and watches gone wrong -- "A ghastly kind of business :" photographing the dead -- Fiends for a funeral : amateur mourners and funerary extravagance -- Grave errors : exploding corpses, flaming formaldehyde, and other funeral fatalities -- The picture on the coffin lid : haunted cemeteries and other venues of death -- The habiliments of woe : products for correct mourning -- The inconsolable grief department : fashionable widows and their whims -- The restless dead : ghosts with a purpose -- Bone of my bone : collecting corpses, relics, and remains -- The museum of death : the horrors of the morgue -- Death never could gather a fairer flower : deathbeds and sorrow.
520 $a"Christ Woodyard{u2026} digs through long-buried newspapers and journals for this fascinating look at the 19th century obsession with the culture of death."--Back cover note.
590 $aCAT 11/16/15 (crh)
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650 0 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aBereavement$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMourning customs$y19th century.
650 0 $aTombs$xHistory$y19th century.
700 1 $aWoodyard, Chris.
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