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.
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emotions.
Volume
1. Literary, Cultural and Material Responses to Death, Loss,
Memory and Mourning
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
General Editor Note
Preface
Introduction
Part
1. Encountering Death
1. Mary Ward, 'An Invitation to Death', in Original Poetry (Bath: Hazard and
Binns, 1807), pp. 67-69
2. Elizabeth Lenox-Conyngham, Death the Mediator, What is Death? and The
Memory of Grief Hella, and Other Poems (London: Edward Churton, 1836),
102-105; 120-22; 126-129.
3. Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'In Memoriam' (Stanzas VII-XIX), 1850
4. Lucy Ann Thorne, Lines written on the death of a friend' in Poems (Leeds:
H.W. Walker, 1864), pp. 29-30.
5. Margaret Veley, 'A Dream of Life and Death' in A Marriage of Shadows and
Other Poems (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1888), 98-102.
6. M.A. Merry, To My Dead Wife, In Memorium and Post Somnum, in Poems
(London: Publisher unknown, c.1890), p. 6, 12,
25.
7. Mathilda Fry, Thy Name has Passed and The Last Sleep, in Historic
Poems and Other Poems (London: Barclay and Fry, 1890), pp. 117-118; 135-137.
8. Arabella Shore, In Memorium and Sonnets to Two of the Dead, in Elegies
and Memorials (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1890), pp. 38-43,
50-51.
Part
2. Child Fatality and Loss
9. Anon, Parental Comfort, in Parental Sorrow, addressed principally to
Christian Parents mourning the Death of Infant Children in The
Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, 5 (1842), p.
83.
10. Anon, To Mourning Friends: On the Death of an Only Child, Written by a
Boy Nine Year Old in The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature,
vol.14, 16 (1838), p.128.
11. John Clare, Graves of Infants (1844)
12. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Threnody (1842)
13. Thomas De Quincey, The Affliction of Childhood in Suspiria De Profundis
(1845)
14. Anon, Memoir of Thomas W. Hughes, Who Died at the Age of Seven (Religious
Tract Society, c.1830), pp. 20-31.
15. E. B. Crawford, Lines on the Death of an Infant in Sons & Daughters
(North Shields: George Walker, 1850), p.
207.
16. Anon, Widow MacFarlanes Lamentation for Her Son in Broadside Ballad
(Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c.1853), p.
96.
17. Eliza Benson, Lines Written in Consolation of a Friend On Death of Her
Daughter in Lays of Memory Sacred and Social by a Mother and her Son
(London: Hurston and Blackett, 1856), pp. 118-119.
18. Charlotte Mary Griffiths, The Dying Blind Girl in Gone with the Storm
and Minor Poems (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c.1874), pp. 81-84.
19. Roden Noel, At His Grave and A Little Childs Monument: Lament, A
Little Childs Monument (London, Kegan Paul & Co., 1881), pp. ix-xi; 1-2.
20. C.H. Sorely, All the Hills and Vales Along
21. Rupert Brooke, Sonnet IV The Dead (1914)
Part
3. Memory, Mourning, and Pets
22. Lord Byron, Inscription on a Monument of a Newfoundland Dog (1808)
23. E. B. Crawford, A Poem Written on the Funeral of Prince Alberts
Greyhound, Eos in Broadside Ballad (Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland,
1844).
24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Flush or Faunus (1854)
25. E Davidson, Farewell to Flossy in The Death of King Theodore and Other
Poems (Newcastle: E. J. Blake; Alnwick: H., et al., 1874), pp. 74-75.
26. W. Archer, On the Death of the Speaking Canary Bird in The Mirror, July
1839, p.
227.
27. Anon, Elegy on a Canary in Quiver, July 1863, p.
272.
28. Matthew Arnold, Poor Matthias!, MacMillans Magazine, no. 278, vol.
xlvii, 1882, pp. 81-85
Part 4 . Mourning Public Figures
29. William Beatty, Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson (London:
Cadell and Davis, London, 1808), pp. 49-53.
30. Robert Southey, The Life of Nelson (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861 [ 1813]),
pp. 374-377.
31. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, On the Death of the Princess Charlotte (1817
32. Robert Southey, Funeral Song, For the Death of Princess Charlotte
(1817) in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume
(London: Longmans, 1847), pp. 465-466.
33. Lord Byron Canto IV in Childe Harolds Pilgrimage (1818)
34. Charles Rann Kennedy, 'Poem on the Death of Charlotte Princess of Wales'
(1817) in Poems, Original and Translated (London: William Walker, 1857), pp.
219-233.
35. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (London:
Edward Moxon, 1852), pp. 1-16.
36. Thomas Braithwaite, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, (London:
W. Pickering, 1852), pp. 5-15.
37. Walter R. Cassels, 'Sonnets On the Death of the Duke of Wellington' in
Poems (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1856), pp. 129-132.
38. William Stone, Elegy to the Memory of the Immortal Wellington, (1852)
in A Panegyric in Honour of the Duke of Wellington, ed. Walter B. May
(Taunton: Frederick May Printing, 1854), pp. 39-50.
39. Thomas Hughes, Finis in Tom Browns School Days (1857) reprinted by
Macmillan & Co., London, 1882), pp. 352-360.
40. Walt Whitman, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd (1865)
41. Caroline A. Mason, President Lincolns Grave in The Lost Ring and Other
Poems (New York: Houghton Mifflin, c.1891), pp. 186-187.
42. Emily Leith, General Gordon in Thoughts and Remembrance: Verses,
(Glasgow: David Bryce and Sons, 1885), pp. 61-62.
Part
5. Music, Memorial, and Memory
43. The Music at Nelsons Funeral in St. Pauls Cathedral in The Musical
Times, 46, 752 (1905).
44. Ernest Newman, Brahmss German Requiem in The Musical Times, 52, 817
(1911), pp. 157-159.
45. Anon, St Jamess Hall Popular Concerts programme (1859), including the
Death Notice of Dr Louis Spohr, p.
5.
46. Anon, More Press Eulogies on the Late William Steinway in Freunds
Musical Weekly, Vol. 16, no. 11 (1897), pp. 1-2.
47. Anon, By Order of the Queen in a Grand Irish Festivals Programme
(1900), p.
2.
48. Anon, In Memoriam. Queen Victoria in The Musical Times Feb. 1st, 1902,
p.
95.
49. Anon, Memorial services relating to King Edward VII, The Musical Times,
Vol.51, No.808, (1910).
50. Memorial to the Musicians of the Titanic Disaster, 14 April 1912,
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
51. Anon, Lifeboats would have saved more and 'Nearer my God to thee', The
Washington Herald, 20 April,
1912.
52. Memorial to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (d.1912), Brandon Hill Cemetery,
Wallington, Borough of Sutton, London.
Part
6. Mausolea and Architectural Memorials
53. The Argyll Mausoleum (1795-6).
54. The Rockingham Mausoleum (1785).
55. The Cotton Mausoleum/Waterloo Tower (1819).
56. The Cunningham Mausoleum (1797).
57 The Bowes Mausoleum (built, c.1760; consecrated in 1812).
58. The Buckinghamshire Mausoleum (1794).
59. The Bourgeois and Desenfans Mausoleum (1807-14).
Index
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 Johns College, Durham University in Theology and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies with interests in anthropology, memory, and mourning.
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