Aspects of acceptance and denial in painted posthumous portraits and postmortem photographs of nineteenth-century children

The Victorian romanticizing of death, childhood and the family helped people to cope with flux and uncertainty in an era of social upheaval. Faced with high infant mortality rates, Victorian parents used culture in diverse ways to mourn and remember their dead children. But to believe that with the...

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Main Author: Beattie, Kathryn
Format: Others
Published: 2005
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/9280/1/MR14352.pdf
Beattie, Kathryn <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Beattie=3AKathryn=3A=3A.html> (2005) Aspects of acceptance and denial in painted posthumous portraits and postmortem photographs of nineteenth-century children. Masters thesis, Concordia University.