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Overview'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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Judith FlandersPublisher: Pan Macmillan Imprint: Picador Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9781509816972ISBN 10: 1509816976 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 29 February 2024 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsNobody knows more about everyday life in Victorian Britain than Judith Flanders, and in Rites of Passage she offers a compelling and often darkly comic history of the period’s fascination with death. Ranging from mourning jewellery to vampires, and from miniature coffins to the opening of Britain’s first crematorium, her book helps modern readers understand what it was like to live at a time when thoughts of not living were as inescapable as gravity. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of <i>Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces</i> and <i>The Turning Point, A Year That Changed Dickens and the World </i> Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/Judith Flanders is the author of several critically acclaimed and bestselling books: A Circle of Sisters (2001), which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; The Invention of Murder (2011), shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-fiction; The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed (2003); The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London (2012), shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year; The Making of Home (2014); Christmas: A History (2017) and A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (2020). In her copious leisure time, she also writes the Sam Clair series of comic crime novels. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/Countries AvailableAll regions |
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