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Death in War and Peace - A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970 (Paperback)
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Death in War and Peace - A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970 (Paperback)
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Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of
the experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the
fifty years after 1914. In it Professor Jalland explores the
complex shift from a culture where death was accepted and grief was
openly expressed before 1914, to one of avoidance and silence by
the 1940s and thereafter.
The two world wars had a profound and cumulative impact on the
prolonged process of change in attitudes to death in England. The
inter-war generation grew up in a bleak atmosphere of mass mourning
for the dead soldiers of the Great War, and the Second World War
created an even deeper break with the past as a pervasive model of
silence about death and suppressed grieving became entrenched in
the nation's psyche.
Stories drawn from letters and diaries show us how death and loss
were experienced by individuals and families in England from 1914;
and how the attitudes, responses, and rituals of death and grieving
varied with gender, religion, class, and region. The growing
medicalization and hospitalization of death from the 1950s further
reinforced the growing culture of silence about death, as it moved
from the care of the family to that of hospitals, doctors, and
undertakers.
These silences about death still linger today, despite a further
cultural shift since the 1970s towards greater emotional
expressiveness. This fascinating study of death and bereavement
helps us to understand the present as well as the past.
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