Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians
Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians

Author: Michael Wheeler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-10-13

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9780521455657

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The Victorians were obsessed with death, bereavement, and funeral rituals, and speculated vigorously on the nature of heaven, hell, and divine judgment. This popular abridgement of Michael Wheeler's award-winning Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology looks at the literary implications of Victorian views of death and the life beyond, and recreates vividly the fear and hope embodied in the theological positions of the novelists and poets of the age. Now accessible to a wide readership, Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians offers a wide-ranging and attractively illustrated cultural history of nineteenth-century religious experience, belief, and language in the face of death.

Death in the Victorian Family
Death in the Victorian Family

Author: Patricia Jalland

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780198208327

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This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the correspondence, diaries, and death memorials of fifty-five families to show us deathbed scenes of the time, good and bad deaths, the roles of medicine and religion, children's deaths, funerals and cremations, widowhood, and mourning rituals.

Hell and the Victorians
Hell and the Victorians

Author: Geoffrey Rowell

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780198266389

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A study of eschatological debates at a time when the idea of eternal punishment was under question, and English Christianity was affected by the contrasting Anglican movements of Evangelicalism and Tractarianism and by the controversy over Darwinism.