Children remembered : responses to untimely death in the past

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Children remembered : responses to untimely death in the past

Robert Woods

Liverpool University Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-280) and index

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Children Remembered discusses the relationship between parents and children in the past. It focuses on the ways in which adults responded to the untimely deaths of children, whether and how they expressed their grief. The study engages with the hypothesis of 'parental indifference' associated with the French cultural historian Philippe Aries by analysing the changing risk of mortality since the sixteenth century and assessing its consequences. It uses paintings and poems to describe feelings and emotions in ways that are not only highly original, but also challenge traditional disciplinary conventions. The circumstances of infant and child mortality are considered for France and England, while example portraits and poems are selected from England and America. While the work is firmly grounded in demography, it is especially concerned with current debates in social and cultural history, with the history of childhood, the way pictorial images can be 'read', and the use as historical evidence to which literature may be put. This is a wide- ranging and ambitions multi-disciplinary study that will add significantly to our understanding of demographic structures; the ways in which they have conditioned attitudes and behaviour in the past.

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List of Tables List of Figures List of Illustrations 1. Introduction: 'the lines of life' 2. Apres la mort des enfants Aries, parental indifference and l'histoire de la mort Vovelle and la longue duree Representing mentalities 3. Mortality, Childcare and Mourning The Risk of dying at an early age Childcare in France and England Mourning practices 4. Children in Pictures and Monuments Historians, pictures and the deceased The changing representation of children, and what it signifies Funeral memorials to departed children and thier mothers Pictorial ambiguites? 5. Emotions and Literature Grief and other emotions Reception and contextual literary history Autobiographical writing Selection 6. Poems, Mainly of Child Loss 7. The Vocabulary of Grief Emotion lexicons How language changed Relationships Death without grief 8. Parallel Histories: Experience and Expression Acknowledgements Notes on the Sixty-Nine Poems Notes Select Bibliography Index

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