Beyond the Veil

The Victorian Obsession With Death and Mourning

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<p><b><i>Beyond the Veil </i>is a visual tour through the curious history of how we deal with death—the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols, and ceremonies. </b><br> <br>From <b>Victorian England</b> across to the <b>US</b>, learn about the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialize the dead. <br> <br>Humans have always had ways of marking death, but in Victorian England death became a morbid obsession that went global—death was as much ‘celebrated’ as it was a source of fear and sadness. Queen Victoria herself became a figurehead of grief after the death of her beloved Prince Albert in 1861. Her ensuing<b> fascination with death</b> took many visual forms—from her ritualized embrace of black clothing to the building of ostentatious monuments—and massively <b>influenced cultural norms</b> in both the UK and further afield. <br><br>The Victorians built complex cemeteries, collected precious memento mori, commissioned bizarre death portraits, and obsessed over the correct mourning attire and funerary protocol, while turn-of-the century America saw reflections of many of these cultural phenomena. The bestsellers of the period were often about life and death (think <i>Frankenstein </i>and <i>Dracula</i>), while the<b> art, architecture, and style—</b>with its often dark and heavy gothic overtones—revelled in the glamorization of death.<i> Beyond the Veil</i> brings this extraordinarily <b>elaborate and stylised visual culture</b> together while expertly explaining and elaborating on its most <b>peculiar and fascinating</b> aspects. <br><br>For example, it explores:</p><ul><li>The influence of<b> Queen Victoria’s personal mourning</b> on fashion and social custom.</li><li>The rise of <b>Victorian cemeteries and funerary architecture</b>.</li><li>The art of <b>memento mori and post-mortem photography</b>.</li><li>The emergence of <b>spiritualism, seances and afterlife communication</b>.</li><li>The fascination with <b>gothic literature,

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EAN

9781836004226

Sprache

Englisch

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Buch

Maße

229 x 176 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

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