E-raamat: Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 17801914: Volume IV: Intellectual and Disciplinary Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

Volume IV: Intellectual and Disciplinary Responses to Death, Loss,
Memory and Mourning

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

General Editor Note

Preface

Introduction

Part
1. Representing Death and Thinking Through Mortality

1. William Dodd, Reflections on Death, (London: Carnan and Newberry, 1777),
pp. 9-17, 57-59.

2. Anon, Cogitations Upon Death; or, The Mirror of Man's Misery, (Stirling:
William Macnie, 1820), pp. 2-15.

3. W.H.R. Rivers, The Primitive Conception of Death, Hibbert Journal, 10
(1911), pp. 393-407.

4. Anon, Messenger of Mortality; or, Life and Death Contrasted, (London: Toy
and Marble Publishing, 1832), p.
1.

5. Eliza Dupe, The Antidote of Death, in Happiness; or, the Secret Spring
of Bliss and Antidote of Death, (Oxford: W. Baxter, 1860), pp. 88-107.

6. John Stuart Mill, Immortality in Three Essays on Religion, (London:
Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894), pp. 196-211.

7. William James, Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine,
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.,1897), pp. 23-55.

8. Roden Noel, Materialisation and Theosophist Theories in A Philosophy of
Immortality, (London: W.H. Harrison, 1885), pp. 58-68.

9. William Lecky, The End in The Map of Life, (London: Longmans, Green, and
Co., 1899), pp. 319-328.

10. Louis Figuier, The Day After Death; or, Our Future Life According to
Science, (MacMillan & Co., 1904), pp. 174-192.

11. Robert Hertz, A Contribution to the Study of the Collective
Representation of Death in Rodney and Claudia Needham (Eds.) Death and the
Right Hand, (London: Routledge, 1960 [ 1907]), pp. 76-86.

12. William Brown, The Recovery of Faith in Immortality in The Christian
Hope: A Study in the Doctrine of Immortality, (New York: C. Scribners Sons,
1912), pp.145-164.

13. James Frazer, Myths of the Origin of Death in The Belief in Immortality
and the Worship of the Dead, (Vol I), (London: MacMillan & Co., 1913), pp.
59-87.

Part
2. Ending Life Gently: Facing Loss, Embracing Grief

14. Samuel D. Williams, Euthanasia in Essays by the Members of the
Birmingham Speculative Club, (London and Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate,
1873), pp. 1-11, 15-16,
28.

15. William Munk, Euthanasia; or, Medical Treatment in Aid of an Easy Death.
(London: Longmans & Co, 1885), pp. 3-10, 72-77,
105.

16. Roden Noel, Arguments for Human Immortality in A Philosophy of
Immortality, (London: W.H. Harrison, 1885), pp. 148-171.

17. Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,
(London: John Murray, 1888), pp. 176-195.

18. Richard Davey, A History of Mourning, (London: Jays of Regent Street,
1889), pp.95-96,
104.

19. Anon, The Aloofness of Grief, Congregationalist, 74 (1896), pp.
506.

20. Pieter Henrik Kritzinger and Ramsay McDonald, Dark Days, In the Shadow
of Death, (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1904), pp. 5-20.

21. Charles Letts, Emma; or, the Dying Penitent, (London: W. Glendinning,
1799), pp. 31-40.

22. Newman Smyth, The Place of Death in Evolution, (New York: Scribner &
Sons, 1898), pp.1-43.

Part
3. Constructing Memory, Mourning, and Posthumous Identities

23. Joseph Jacobs, The Dying of Death, Current Literature, 26 (1899),
p.348.

24. William Godwin, Posthumous Fame in The Enquirer: Essays on Education,
Manners, and Literature. (London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1797), pp. 288-289,
292-293.

25. William Godwin, Essay on Sepulchres; or, a Proposal for Erecting Some
Memorial of the Illustrious Dead of All Ages on the Spot where their Remains
Have Been Interred, (London: W. Miller, 1809), pp. 1-5, 16-30, 111-114.

26. James Relly, Reflections on Death, Universalist Magazine, 49 (1820),
p.194.

27. Thomas De Quincey, The last days of Immanuel Kant, Blackwoods London
Magazine, 155 (1827), pp. 159-166.

28. Thomas Carlyle, Death of Goethe, New Monthly Magazine, 138 (1832), pp.
374-84.

29. Jeremy Bentham , Auto-icon; or, Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living,
(Unpublished, c.1842), pp. 2-7, 12-13, 16-17.

30. George W. Foote, Infidel Death-Beds, (London: The Pioneer Press, 1888),
pp. 3-9, 13-14, 21-22, 26-27, 31-32, 46-47, 50-53, 54-56, 65-66, 83-84,
84-86, 90-91.

31. Maurice Maeterlinck, Death, (London: Methuen, 1912), pp. 17-18, 29-32,
37-38, 60-84.

Part
4. Embodying the Shadows: Life Beyond the Grave

32. Ebeneezer Sibly, A Key to Physic and the Occult Sciences, (London:
Champante & Whitrow, 1795), pp. 122-126,185-195, 404-408.

33. Henry Sidgwick, Presidential Address in Journal of the Society for
Psychical Research, 3 (1888), pp. 35-45.

34. Andrew Lang, The Comparative Study of Ghost Stories, Nineteenth
Century, 17 (1885), pp.
24.

35. Andrew Lang, Ghost Stories Up To Date, Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine,
155 (1894), pp. 47-58.

36. Edgar Sheppard, The Palace Ghost in Memorials of St Jamess Palace
(London: Longmans Green & Co., 1894), pp. 335-339.

37. Annie Besant, Deathand After?, Manuals of the Theosophical Publishing
Society, 3 (1906), pp 5-22.

38. William Brown, Early Conceptions of the Future Life and The Rise of
the Doctrine of Immortality in India and Greece in The Christian Hope: A
Study in the Doctrine of Immortality, (New York: C. Scribners Sons, 1912),
pp. 23-34, 35-50.

39. George A. Gordon, The Verdict of the Infinite in Immortality and the
New Theodicy, (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1897), pp. 105-130.

Index

Geoffrey Scarre is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Durham University, with research interests in death, ethics, and posterity.

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.