About the Book
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.
Table of Contents:
Volume III. Historical, Social-Political and Public Responses to Death, Loss and Mourning
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
General Editor Note
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Historical Epitaphs
1. John Miller, ‘Hints on Epitaphs for Country Churchyards’ in Things After Death, (London: Francis & John Rivington, 1848), pp. 85-98.
2. Thomas Pettigrew, The Chronicles of the Tombs: A Select Collection of Epitaphs (London: Bell & Sons, 1886), pp. 440, 472, 500
Part 2. Historical Events
3. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, (1790; London: Apollo Press, 1814), pp. 70-80.
4. James Mackintosh, Vindiciae Gallicae: In Defence of the French Revolution, (London: G.G. J. and J. Robinson, 1792), pp. i-xiii.
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘England in 1819’
6. Charlotte Stoker, ‘Experiences of the Cholera in Ireland 1832’
7. John Ruskin, ‘The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century: Lecture 1’ in The Complete Works of John Ruskin, eds. Edward Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, (London: George Allen, 1908), pp 15-41.
8. Memorial of the Boer War (1899-1902) at St Cuthbert’s Church, Darlington, accompanied by two Northern Echo articles on the unveiling of the statue (5 August, 1905).
9. Henry Scott Holland, ‘The King of Terrors’ (1910) in Facts of the Faith: Being a Collection of Sermons Not Hitherto Published in Book Form, ed. Christopher Cheshire (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919), pp. 125-134.
10. Thomas Hardy, ‘Men who March Away’ (1914)
11. ‘Images and Words on the Eve of the First World War’
(a) Ralph Kite, Letter Home
(b) Anon, Photograph of Ralph Kite (1895-1916) in Uniform and as Undergraduate
(c) Anon, Photograph of Lieutenant Benjamin Handley Geary, V.C (1910)
(d) Anon, Article on Lieutenant Geary’s Victory Cross award, The London Gazette, 15 October, 1915, p. 10154
Part 3. Historical Responses to Re-organising the Dead, Cremation, and Burial
12. Joseph Smith, ‘The King Follett Discourse’ (7 April 1844), published in ‘Conference Minutes’ Times and Seasons, Vol 5 (15 August 1844), pp. 612–617.
13. The Declaration of the Cremation Society of Great Britain (1874). Quoted in ‘The History of Cremation in the United Kingdom.’ The Cremation Society.
14. Christopher Wordsworth, On the Burning of the Body and on Burial: A Sermon Preached at Westminster Abbey (Lincoln: Williamson, Rivingtons, & Co., 1874), pp. 3-16.
15. Henry Thompson, Cremation: The Treatment of the Body after Death, (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1874), pp. 21-31.
16. Francis Seymour Haden, Earth to Earth: A Plea for A Change of System in Our Burial of the Dead, (London: Macmillan & Co., 1875), pp. 5-22.
17. Hugh Reginald Haweis, ‘By Fire’, in Ashes to Ashes: A Cremation Prelude, (London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1875), pp. 76-90.
18. William Easie, ‘Present State of the Cremation Question’, in Cremation of the Dead: Its History and Bearing upon Public Health (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1875), pp. 68-88.
19. The Trial Judgement of Dr William Price held at Cardiff Assizes. Text is taken from The Queen v. Price (February 7, 1884), 12 Q.B.D., pp. 247–256.
Part 4. Historical Notices and Customs
20. A selection of Wesleyan Mission Notices (1835-1838), pp. 157-159; 327; 367-368; 584.
21. G.O. Cry, ‘The Irish Funeral’, The Dublin Penny Journal, Vol.1, No.31 (1833), pp. 241-243.
22. Anon, ‘A Funeral and its Pleasures’, Merthyr Telegraph, (February 24, 1864).
23. Anon, ‘Funeral Sermons’, Herts Guardian, (13 April, 1867).
24. Anon, ‘Extraordinary Funeral of a Magistrate’, The Globe, (15 April, 1876).
25. Elizabeth Marbury, ‘Death, Funerals, and Mourning’, in Manners: A Handbook of Social Customs (Chicago: Westminster Publishing Company,1888), pp. 30-36.
26. Anon, ‘The Season’s Fashions in Mourning Attire’ advertisement, The Album, (26 August, 1895), p. ii.
27. James E. Vaux, ‘Funeral Customs’, in Church Folklore: A Record of some Post-Reformation Usages in the English Church (London: Griffith Farran & Co., 1894), pp. 119-172.
28. Victorian Hair Basket, woven from hair of several generations of one family.
Part 5. Reckoning the Death of Historical Figures
29. James Churchill, The Nation in Tears: A sermon occasioned by the deeply lamented death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta (London: Cox, 1817), pp. 1-34.
30. Anon, ‘The Death of Napoleon’ in The British Medical Journal, 2, no. 2713 (1912), pp. 1761–1763.
31. Chandos Leigh, ‘On Napoleon Bonaparte’, in Poems: Now First Collected (London: Edward Moxon, 1839), pp. 261-264.
32. Monument of Grace Darling, St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland.
33. Anon, Elizabeth Fry, obituary, The Illustrated London News, (25 October, 1845), p. 267.
34. Anon, ‘The Duke’s Funeral’, The Illustrated London News, Vol. 21, No. 591 (20 November, 1852), pp. 426-427.
35. Duke of Wellington’s Funeral Souvenir, The Illustrated London News, 6 November, 1852.
36. An 1852 daguerreotype of Ada Lovelace playing the piano by Henry Wyndham Phillips.
37. Extracts from Queen Victoria’s Journals (January-February 1862) reflecting on the death of Prince Albert.
38. Arthur Penrhyn Stanely, ‘Lord Palmerston’ (1865) in Westminster Sermons: Sermons on Special Occasions Preached in Westminster Abbey, (New York: Charles Scribner & Sons., 1882), pp. 138-148.
39. Anon, ‘A Pugilist’s Funeral’, The Queenslander, (3 February, 1866), p.10.
40. Richard Holt Hutton, ‘An Essay on the Death of Charles Darwin’ in Criticisms on Contemporary Thought and Thinkers (London: Macmillan & Co., 1894), pp. 145-152.
41. John Brown, ‘Thackeray’s Death’ in John Leech and Other Papers (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1882), pp. 179-196.
42. Anon, ‘Funeral of Carpenter Moses Mohawk’ in Yorkshire Gazette, (24 August, 1889).
43. Anon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, obituary, Los Angeles Herald, (2 July, 1896).
44. Memorial Concert Programme to mark the death of Queen Victoria, Queen’s Hall, 26th January, 1901.
45. Anon, ‘Sir Henry Irving: The Last Scene’, Daily Mirror, 15 October 1905, p.3., accompanied by a Daily Mirror cartoon.
46. Robert Tressell, ‘The Gouls’, in The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914), pp. 344-356.
Index
About the Author :
Mark Sandy is Professor of English Literature at Durham University, with research interests in Romantic poetics of loss, grief, memory, and mourning.
Douglas Davies is Professor of Theology at Durham University, with interests in death, mourning, and crematoria.
Geoffrey Scarre is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Durham University, with research interests in death, ethics, and posterity.
Matthew McCullough is a Doctoral Researcher in Musicology at Durham University, and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies, with research interests in music as a form of memorialisation.
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.
