Representations Of Childhood Death
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...
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This highly readable collection of essays offers valuable insights into how we understand and grieve for children who die.
List of PlatesList of Illustrations in the TextNotes on the ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction11The Folklore of Infant Deaths: Burials, Ghosts and Changelings112Child Death in British and North American Ballads from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries293'[An] Impe entombed here doth lie': the Besford Triptych and Child Memorials in Post-Reformation England524'A heart terrifying Sorrow': the Deaths of Children in Seventeenth-Century Women's Manuscript Journals655Intimations of Mortality: the Puritan and Evangelical Message to Children876'Ye careless, thoughtless, worldly parents, tremble while you read this history!': the Use and Abuse of the Dying Child in the Evangelical Tradition1117Children's Death in Dickens: a Chapter in the History of Taste1338Friedrich Ruckert's Kindertotenlieder1549Fatal Fantasies: the Death of Children in Victorian and Edwardian Fantasy Writing16910Dead Rite: Adolescent Horror Fiction and Death18911Reflexions on Dead Children in the Cinema and Why there are Not More of Them204Conclusion, Part I: Death, Sex and God: Sociological and Religious Accounts of the Death of the Young217Conclusion, Part II: Grieving Parents, Grieving Children225Bibliography239Index242
