[Rarebooks] FS: The Victorian Celebration of Death

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

The Victorian Celebration of Death

By James Stevens Curl. Published by Sutton Publishing in 2000.

"While the Victorians managed to confront death and mortality  
directly, we now treat such topics as taboo. That era's views were  
transformed by many factors, including the creation of urban  
cemeteries; the production of such merchandise for mourners as wreaths  
and elaborate hearses; the Romantic Movement; the Evangelical Revival;  
and the national spectacle of state funerals. Curl's lively study of  
the dead is supplemented by quotations from Ovid, Shakespeare, and  
Dickens, among others, and features dozens of black and white  
photographs of noteworthy burial grounds".

Hardcover. 7"x10", 330 pages, black & white illustrations, dust  
jacket. Minor wear. $75.

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