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The Victorian Celebration of Death by James Stevens Curl (Paperback, 2004)

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In this beautifully illustrated and well-researched book Professor Curl has rescued much fascinating material from undeserved oblivion, and his work fills a genuine gap. Book Binding:Paperback / softback.

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He has resurrected many valuable and extremely interesting aspects of nineteenth-century attidues to death and the disposal of the dead; Curl's achievement is as well-ordered as any sumptuous funeral, and is lucid as well as entertaining, with many surprises and assiciated delights. He proceeds from the elegiac garden to the Elysian fields of the ideal cemetery, and then on to cremation, with scarcely a jolt. His robustly argued and beautifully written reportage makes his unique and elegant book an agreeable companion to the non-eternal bedside.