The Victorian Way of Death - RIT (Zoom)

The Victorian Way of Death - RIT (Zoom)

Spring 2-3 hours | Available (Membership Required)

Online Lebanon, NH 03766 United States
Online Meeting
6/2/2025 (one day)
1:30 PM-3:00 PM EDT on Mon
$30.00

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The Victorian Way of Death - RIT (Zoom)

Spring 2-3 hours | Available (Membership Required)

The Victorians made a spectacle out of death. They both feared it and were fascinated by it. The hothouse atmosphere of romanticism combined with growing urbanization and increasing life spans contributed to a culture of death that demanded elaborate public and personal displays of inconsolable loss. Our own rituals of death and mourning directly descend from the practices put in place by the Victorians.

(Audio/Visual, Lecture)

Gary Mitchell

Gary Mitchell is a research junkie with a large resource library. He becomes fascinated with something, researches it in detail, then shares what he’s learned. Appropriately for the topic of this class, his wife insists she has to die first so she isn’t stuck with disposing of his “junk.”