{"product_id":"beyond-the-veil-the-victorian-obsession-with-death-and-mourning-hardcover","title":"Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession with Death and Mourning - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Gambino\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 obsession 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 cultural norms in both the UK and further afield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Victorians built complex cemeteries, collected precious memento mori, commissioned bizarre death portraits and obsessed over the correct mourning attire and funerary protocol, 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. Beyond the Veil brings this extraordinarily elaborate and stylised visual culture together while expertly explaining and elaborating on its most peculiar and fascinating aspects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUS-based Paul Gambino has been an avid collector of the bizarre for over 20 years with an extensive collection of Victorian memorial photographs, antique funeria, mug shots, and vintage religious items (including a life-sized St. Sebastian and Virgin Mary salvaged from a 19th-century church in Pennsylvania).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 9.06 x 6.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53157947081037,"sku":"9781836004226","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/Wf2cNp6-wF9781836004226.webp?v=1768125058","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/beyond-the-veil-the-victorian-obsession-with-death-and-mourning-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}