{"product_id":"beyond-the-veil-the-victorian-obsession-with-mourning-and-death-9781836004226","title":"Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Mourning and Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe visual history of how we deal with death - the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies - is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and travelling from Victorian England across to the US, \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Veil\u003c\/i\u003e is a visual tour through this curious world, charting the often peculiar and at times macabre ways of how the living memorialise the dead.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumans have always had ways of marking death, but in Victorian England death became a morbid obssession 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 fascination with death took many visual forms - from her ritualised embrace of black clothing to the building of ostentatious monuments - and massively influenced cutlural norms in both the UK and further afield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Victorians built complex cemeteries, collected precious momento mori, commissioned bizzare death portraits and obssesed over the correct mourning attire and funerary protocal, 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 Frankenstein and Dracula), while the art, architecture and style - with its often dark and heavy gothic overtones - revelled in the glamorisation of death. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Veil\u003c\/i\u003e brings this extraordinarilly elaborate and stylised visual culture together while expertly explaining and elaborating on its most peculiar and fascinating aspects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836004226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.07h x 6.98w x 0.81d","brand":"Paul Gambino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378743050421,"sku":"9781836004226","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_d448f742-ef56-4fb5-92d7-be49512b36fb.jpg?v=1753159691","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/beyond-the-veil-the-victorian-obsession-with-mourning-and-death-9781836004226","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}