Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914

Volume IV: Intellectual and Disciplinary Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning
Herausgeber: Scarre, Geoffrey; Whitefield, Ricky

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Produktbeschreibung

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Primary sources explore death and mourning from literary, spiritual, historical, and intellectual perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emotions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9781032282664
• ISBN-10: 1032282665
• Artikelnr.: 75471342

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Scarre is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Durham University, with research interests in death, ethics, and posterity. Rick Whitefield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Durham University in Theology and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies with interests in anthropology, memory, and mourning.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume IV: Intellectual and 'Disciplinary' Responses to Death
Loss
Memory and Mourning Acknowledgements List of Illustrations General Editor Note Preface Introduction Part 1. Representing Death and Thinking Through Mortality 1. William Dodd
Reflections on Death
(London: Carnan and Newberry
1777)
pp. 9-17
57-59. 2. Anon
Cogitations Upon Death; or
The Mirror of Man's Misery
(Stirling: William Macnie
1820)
pp. 2-15. 3. W.H.R. Rivers
'The Primitive Conception of Death'
Hibbert Journal
10 (1911)
pp. 393-407. 4. Anon
Messenger of Mortality; or
Life and Death Contrasted
(London: Toy and Marble Publishing
1832)
p. 1. 5. Eliza Dupe
'The Antidote of Death'
in Happiness; or
the Secret Spring of Bliss and Antidote of Death
(Oxford: W. Baxter
1860)
pp. 88-107. 6. John Stuart Mill
'Immortality' in Three Essays on Religion
(London: Longmans
Green
and Co.
1894)
pp. 196-211. 7. William James
Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine
(Boston: Houghton
Mifflin
and Co.
1897)
pp. 23-55. Roden Noel
'Materialisation and Theosophist Theories' in A Philosophy of Immortality
(London: W.H. Harrison
1885)
pp. 58-68. 9. William Lecky
'The End' in The Map of Life
(London: Longmans
Green
and Co.
1899)
pp. 319-328. 10. Louis Figuier
The Day After Death; or
Our Future Life According to Science
(MacMillan & Co.
1904)
pp. 174-192. 11. Robert Hertz
'A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death' in Rodney and Claudia Needham (Eds.) Death and the Right Hand
(London: Routledge
1960 [1907])
pp. 76-86. 12. William Brown
'The Recovery of Faith in Immortality' in The Christian Hope: A Study in the Doctrine of Immortality
(New York: C. Scribner's Sons
1912)
pp.145-164. 13. James Frazer
'Myths of the Origin of Death' in The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead
(Vol I)
(London: MacMillan & Co.
1913)
pp. 59-87. Part 2. Ending Life Gently: Facing Loss
Embracing Grief 14. Samuel D. Williams
'Euthanasia' in Essays by the Members of the Birmingham Speculative Club
(London and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate
1873)
pp. 1-11
15-16
28. 15. William Munk
Euthanasia; or
Medical Treatment in Aid of an Easy Death . (London: Longmans & Co
1885)
pp. 3-10
72-77
105. ' in A Philosophy of Immortality
(London: W.H. Harrison
1885)
pp. 148-171. 17. Charles Darwin
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
(London: John Murray
1888)
pp. 176-195. 18. Richard Davey
A History of Mourning
(London: Jays of Regent Street
1889)
pp.95-96
104. 19. Anon
'The Aloofness of Grief'
Congregationalist
74 (1896)
pp. 506. 20. Pieter Henrik Kritzinger and Ramsay McDonald
'Dark Days'
In the Shadow of Death
(London: William Clowes & Sons
1904)
pp. 5-20. 21. Charles Letts
Emma; or
the Dying Penitent
(London: W. Glendinning
1799)
pp. 31-40. 22. Newman Smyth
The Place of Death in Evolution
(New York: Scribner & Sons
1898)
pp.1-43. Part 3. Constructing Memory
Mourning
and Posthumous Identities 23. Joseph Jacobs
'The Dying of Death'
Current Literature
26 (1899)
p.348. William Godwin
'Posthumous Fame' in The Enquirer: Essays on Education
Manners
and Literature. (London: G.G. and J. Robinson
1797)
pp. 288-289
292-293. 25. William Godwin
Essay on Sepulchres; or
a Proposal for Erecting Some Memorial of the Illustrious Dead of All Ages on the Spot where their Remains Have Been Interred
(London: W. Miller
1809)
pp. 1-5
16-30
111-114. 26. James Relly
'Reflections on Death'
Universalist Magazine
49 (1820)
p.194. 27. Thomas De Quincey
'The last days of Immanuel Kant'
Blackwood's London Magazine
155 (1827)
pp. 159-166. 28. Thomas Carlyle
'Death of Goethe'
New Monthly Magazine
138 (1832)
pp. 374-84. ; or
Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living
(Unpublished
c.1842)
pp. 2-7
12-13
16-17. 30. George W. Foote
Infidel Death-Beds
(London: The Pioneer Press
1888)
pp. 3-9
13-14
21-22
26-27
31-32
46-47
50-53
54-56
65-66
83-84
84-86
90-91. 31. Maurice Maeterlinck
Death
(London: Methuen
1912)
pp. 17-18
29-32
37-38
60-84. Part 4. Embodying the Shadows: Life Beyond the Grave 32. Ebeneezer Sibly
A Key to Physic and the Occult Sciences
(London: Champante & Whitrow
1795)
pp. 122-126
185-195
404-408. 33. Henry Sidgwick
'Presidential Address' in Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
3 (1888)
pp. 35-45. 34. Andrew Lang
'The Comparative Study of Ghost Stories'
Nineteenth Century
17 (1885)
pp. 24. 35. Andrew Lang
'Ghost Stories Up To Date'
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
155 (1894)
pp. 47-58. 36. Edgar Sheppard
'The Palace Ghost' in Memorials of St James's Palace (London: Longmans Green & Co.
1894)
pp. 335-339. 37. Annie Besant
'Death-and After?'
Manuals of the Theosophical Publishing Society
3 (1906)
pp 5-22. 38. William Brown
'Early Conceptions of the Future Life' and 'The Rise of the Doctrine of Immortality in India and Greece' in The Christian Hope: A Study in the Doctrine of Immortality
(New York: C. Scribner's Sons
1912)
pp. 23-34
35-50. 39. George A. Gordon
'The Verdict of the Infinite' in Immortality and the New Theodicy
(Boston: Houghton
Mifflin
and Co.
1897)
pp. 105-130. Index