Children remembered : responses to untimely death in the past
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Children remembered : responses to untimely death in the past
Liverpool University Press, 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-280) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
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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