Great deaths
Subtitle: grieving, religion, and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
By: by John Wolffe.
Contributors: British Academy.
Series: A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Mourning customs -- Great Britain -- History; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Great Britain; Celebrities -- Great Britain -- Death; Death -- Psychological aspects -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The paths of glory lead but to the grave': Approaching the Deaths; title: of the Famous; title: 2 'The last great Englishman is low': Burying the Duke of; title: Wrellington 28; title: 3. 'O God our help in ages past': The Churches and National; title: Mourning 56; title: 4. Death and the City: Commemoration, Identity and Religiosity 94; title: 5. Martyrs of Empire: Livingstone and Gordon 136; title: 6. The Shades of Westninster: Death and Politicians 154; title: 7. 'It was too soon to die': Death and the Royal Family, 1861-1892 192; title: 8. The Ending of Eras: Victoria and E.dward VII zz2; title: 9. 'A vast dumb tenderness': Prospect and Retrospect 59; title: Appendix: The Organization of Funerals z87; title: Bibiography 294; title: Index 3 3.