Paying respects: death, commodity culture, and the middle class in victorian london

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dc.contributor.committeeChairWong, Aliza S.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDeslandes, Paul R.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberAdams, Gretchen A.
dc.creatorOwens, Tana L.
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-14T23:20:44Z
dc.date.available2011-02-18T21:18:10Z
dc.date.available2016-11-14T23:20:44Z
dc.date.issued2005-05
dc.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis attempts to fulfill the need for a study of the relationship between middle-class consumerism and death culture in nineteenth-century London by analyzing manifestations of middle-class death culture – private cemeteries, mourning, funeral ephemera, and the providers of these. The structure of this thesis provides the reader with a history, as well as a detailed description, of the consumerist aspects of death. The second chapter examines the intellectual roots of the death culture and how new discourses passed through to the denizens of the nineteenth century. The third chapter explores the rising popularity and meanings of the new private cemeteries and the overwhelming sanitary issues of the middle Victorian period. The fourth chapter covers the business of selling death ephemera to the members of the middle class and the people who sold it. The final chapter looks at the decline of Victorian sentimentality and the increasing popularity of “modern” practices. All chapters emphasize the middle-class association and the deeper meanings.
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2346/15896en_US
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTexas Tech Universityen_US
dc.rights.availabilityUnrestricted.
dc.subjectFuneralen_US
dc.subjectMourningen_US
dc.subjectBurialen_US
dc.subjectVictorianen_US
dc.subjectDeathen_US
dc.subjectGreat Britainen_US
dc.titlePaying respects: death, commodity culture, and the middle class in victorian london
dc.typeThesis

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