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基本説明
From the humblest, yet still elaborate, working class funeral to the massive and organised outpourings of grief at the State funerals of the likes of Nelson, Wellington and Queen Victoria herself.
Full Description
The Victorian period was one of remarkable urban development, industrial expansion, and population growth, with all the attendant problems. The mortality rate was high, with epidemics, poor hygiene and a lack of clean water largely to blame. Disposal of the dead was therefore a problem. This little known side of reform in Victorian Britain is documented here as a vast achievment in the civilizing of urban man. The author takes into account religious, social, architectural, monumental, and landscaping facets. Along the way, he describes some major Victorian funerals (notably that of the Duke of Wellington) and ends with the Queen's own funeral in 1901, an awe-inspiring occasion in which representatives of many nations and peoples took part.
Contents
The genesis of Victorian attitudes to death; the beginnings of reform and the first great cemeteries in Britain; more cemeteries; crisis, uncertainty and change; more private, and some public, cemeteries; the rise of cremation; funerals, ephemera and mourning; royal funerals; the end of the Victorian era
