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Cargando... Death and the Victorians: A Dark Fascinationpor Adrian MacKinder
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An entertaining and accessible romp through Victorian culture that reveals the fascinating and gruesome ways the Victorians revered, feared and exploited death. From spooky stories and real-life ghost hunting, to shows about murder and serial killers, we are fascinated by death - and we owe these modern obsessions to the Victorian age.Death and the Victorians explores a period in history when the search for the truth about what lies beyond our mortal realm was matched only by the imagination and invention used to find it.Walk among London's festering graveyards, where the dead were literally rising from the grave. Visit the Paris Morgue, where thousands flocked to view the spectacle of death every single day.Lift the veil on how spirits were invited into the home, secret societies taught ways to survive death, and the latest science and technology was applied to provide proof of the afterlife.Find out why the Victorian era is considered the golden age of the ghost story, exemplified by tales from the likes of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oscar Wilde and Henry James.Discover how the birth of the popular press nurtured our taste for murder and that Jack the Ripper was actually a work of pure Gothic horror fiction crafted by cynical Victorian newspapermen.Death and the Victorians exposes the darker side of the nineteenth century, a time when the living were inventing incredible ways to connect with the dead that endure to this day. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Much of the material may well be familiar to readers with an interest in either the topic or the period but that doesn't mean the book isn't both interesting and a useful contribution to the field. Few of us have all of the things we "know" readily available to mind, though when we see it we remember it. This volume brings this information along with some new research and a nuanced perspective to both those new to it and those of us familiar to some degree. I like books that bring information together to make a point or understanding rather than assume every reader not only knows but remembers the details. Plus I now have a nice handy reference for much of this.
Recommended for those who have an interest in the Victorian Age, the changing perception and activity surrounding death, and/or those who want to know some of the original ideas behind how we currently understand our relationship to death and the dead.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. ( )