Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession With Death and Mourning
By Paul Gambino
Hardcover
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By Paul Gambino
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Beyond the Veil is a visual tour through the curious history of how we deal with death—the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols, and ceremonies.
From Victorian England across to the US, learn about the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialize the dead.
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...
From Victorian England across to the US, learn about the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialize the dead.
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...


