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A carregar... Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear (edição 2001)por Jan Bondeson (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is a little more academically driven than I wanted - I expected a book more like Mary Roach's books on death - but it was still very interesting, thoroughly researched, and well written. I could see this being used in a classroom setting but it might be a little daunting for the casual reader. ( ) A fun popular history about the historical and literary reactions (mainly late 18th and 19th centuries) to the fear of being buried alive. By turns gruesome and amusing. It seems very well researched, but I found some inconsistencies in the text that make me wonder how many errors there might be. However, I was reading it purely for entertainment, and it served its purpose admirably. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales - just think of The Premature Burial - may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1880s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrible, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead." "With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. Jan Bondeson looks at legends from the Renaisance of thieves awakening supposedly deceased women when they try to steal the women's jewelry, as well as people awakening on the way to their funerals or even later in the graveyard. He then looks at the bizarre nineteenth-century security coffins with bellropes or escape hatches, and the macabre waiting mortuaries for decaying corpses, as well as the writers who were inspired to use themes as premature burial in their work. Finally, he questions whether our medical criteria today for determining if someone is dead are truly reliable."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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