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grieving, religion, and nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain

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Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
331

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Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)
March 15, 2001, British Academy
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1 The paths of glory lead but to the grave': Approaching the Deaths
of the Famous
2 'The last great Englishman is low': Burying the Duke of
Wrellington 28
3. 'O God our help in ages past': The Churches and National
Mourning 56
4. Death and the City: Commemoration, Identity and Religiosity 94
5. Martyrs of Empire: Livingstone and Gordon 136
6. The Shades of Westninster: Death and Politicians 154
7. 'It was too soon to die': Death and the Royal Family, 1861-1892 192
8. The Ending of Eras: Victoria and E.dward VII zz2
9. 'A vast dumb tenderness': Prospect and Retrospect 59
Appendix: The Organization of Funerals z87
Bibiography 294
Index 3 3.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-311) and index.

Series
A British Academy postdoctoral fellowship monograph.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
393/.0941
Library of Congress
GT3390.5.G7 W65 2000, GT3390.5.G7W65 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 331 p., [12] p. of plates :
Number of pages
331

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3964934M
ISBN 10
0197262384
LCCN
2001269746
OCLC/WorldCat
46807834, 46720574
Library Thing
5412363
Goodreads
2574153

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