Representations of childhood death
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Representations of childhood death
Macmillan Press , St. Martin's Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241) and index
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: us ISBN 9780312224080
内容説明
Recent events such as the massacres in Dunblane and Arkansas, the deaths of children in terrorist attacks, civil wars and famines, children born with AIDS, and the many abductions and murders of children - including some by children - have placed childhood death firmly in the public consciousness. But how do we understand what it means for a child to die? This book examines the way the deaths of children have been dealt with at different times and in different media. Each contributor has focused on a different way of representing the deaths of children - from superstitions about malign child ghosts through mothers' diaries to horror fiction - and more.
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: uk ISBN 9780333695791
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Before this century, death in childhood was common. Now that we expect children to survive and thrive, childhood death is treated as peculiarly poignant and shocking; especially as it seems so often to be accompanied by violence. Incidents such as the massacres at Dunblane, Arkansas and Colorado, combined with terrorist attacks, wars and murderous abductions, have placed childhood death firmly in the public consciousness. Moreover, we have become accustomed to seeing images of children dying as a consequence of famine, or that twentieth-century plague, AIDS. But how do we understand these events? What does it means for a child to die? Representations of Childhood Death examines the way the deaths of children have been dealt with at different times and in different media. Each contributor has focused on a different way of representing the deaths of children - from superstitions about malign child ghosts through mothers' diaries to horror fiction - and more. This highly readable collection of essays offers valuable insights into how we understand and grieve for children who die.
目次
- Acknowledgements 'Dead Boys'
- A. S. Byatt Introduction
- G.Avery & K.Reynolds The Folklore of Infant Deaths
- J.Simpson Child Death in British and North America Ballads from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
- V.Gammon '(An) Impe entombed here doth lie': The Besford Triptych and Child Memorials in Post-Reformation England
- N.Llewellyn 'A Heart Terrifying Sorrow': The Deaths of Children in Seventeenth-century Women's Manuscript Journals
- E.Clarke Intimations of Immortality: The Puritan and Evangelical Message to Children
- G.Avery 'Ye careless, thoughtless, worldly parents, tremble while you read this history!': The Use and Abuse of the Dying Child in the Evangelical Tradition
- E.Jay Children's Death in Dickens: A Chapter in the History of Taste
- A.O.J.Cockshut Friedruch Ruckert's Kindertotenlieder
- E.Sagarra Fatal Fantasies: The Death of Children in Victorian and Edwardian Fantasy Writing
- K.Reynolds Dead Rite: Adolescent Horror Fiction and Death
- K.McCarron Reflexions on Dead Children in the Cinema and Why There are Not More of Them
- J.O.Thompson Conclusion Part 1: Death, Sex and God: Sociological and Religious Accounts of the Death of the Young
- P.Young Conclusion Part 2: Grieving Parents, Grieving Children
- J.Goodall Bibliography Index
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