Description
| Product ID: | 9781509816972 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rites of Passage |
| Subtitle: | Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Judith Flanders |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | History, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Sociology: death and dying, Social & cultural history, Sociology: death & dying, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1800 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House. <p><b>'Nobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders' - Douglas Robert-Fairhurst, author of <i>Metamorphosis</i> and <i>The Turning Point</i></b><br><br><b>In <i>Rites of Passage</i>, 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.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-02-29 |
