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Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession With Death and Mourning by Paul Gambino
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9781836004226
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group UK
ISBN-10
1836004222
ISBN-13
9781836004226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18074291998
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beyond the Veil : the Victorian Obsession with Death and Mourning
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2025
Topic
Death & Dying, Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), Europe / Western
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
26.5 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
306.90942
Table Of Content
Introduction I .THRONES & BONES The Grief that Governs I I . In the SHADOW of the SCYTHE Life and Death in the Victorian Era I I I . MOURNING COUTURE Dying's Influence over Fashion I V. BRUSHES with MORTALITY Victorian Art in the Shadow of Death V. CITY of the DEAD Family Plots to the Necropolis VI . CROSSING OVER Communicating with the Great Beyond VII. The DARK ARTS A Dance with Death in Literature and Culture V I I I . A MEMENTO MORI Keepsakes of the Dead IX. The HOUSE OF SHADOWS From Home to Funeral Home X. SHOOTING the DEAD A Final Focus XI . TOIL and TRAGEDY Working Yourself to Death X I I. TWIN SHADOWS The Butcher and the Bunco Artist X I I I . The QUEEN'S LAST BREATH A Monarch's Farewell Endnotes Picture Credits Index Acknowledgements About the Author
Synopsis
A visual history of mourning and of the culture surrounding the commemoration of death. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, the book is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead., The visual history of how we deal with death - the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies - is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, Beyond the Veil is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead. Humans have always had ways of marking death, but in Victorian England death became a morbid obsession that went global - death was as much 'celebrated' as it was a source of fear and sadness. Queen Victoria herself became a figurehead of grief after the death of her beloved Prince Albert in 1861. Her ensuing fascination with death took many visual forms - from her ritualised embrace of black clothing to the building of ostentatious monuments - and massively influenced cultural norms in both the UK and further afield. The Victorians built complex cemeteries, collected precious memento mori, commissioned bizarre death portraits and obsessed over the correct mourning attire and funerary protocol, while turn-of-the century America saw reflections of many of these cultural phenomena. The bestsellers of the period were often about life and death (think Frankenstein and Dracula), while the art, architecture and style - with its often dark and heavy gothic overtones - revelled in the glamorisation of death. Beyond the Veil brings this extraordinarily elaborate and stylised visual culture together while expertly explaining and elaborating on its most peculiar and fascinating aspects., A visual history of mourning and of the culture surrounding the commemoration of death. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, the book is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead. The visual history of how we deal with death - the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies - is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, Beyond the Veil is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead.Humans have always had ways of marking death, but in Victorian England death became a morbid obssession that went global - death was as much 'celebrated' as it was a source of fear and sadness. Queen Victoria herself became a figurehead of grief after the death of her beloved Prince Albert in 1861. Her ensuing fascination with death took many visual forms - from her ritualised embrace of black clothing to the building of ostentatious monuments - and massively influenced cutlural norms in both the UK and further afield.The Victorians built complex cemeteries, collected precious momento mori, commissioned bizzare death portraits and obssesed over the correct mourning attire and funerary protocal, while turn-of-the century America saw reflections of many of these cultural phenomena. The bestsellers of the period were often about life and death (think Frankenstein and Dracula), while the art, architecture and style - with its often dark and heavy gothic overtones - revelled in the glamorisation of death. Beyond the Veil brings this extraordinarilly elaborate and stylised visual culture together while expertly explaining and elaborating on its most peculiar and fascinating aspects.
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