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 II. Religious, Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Responses to Death,
Loss, Memory and Mourning
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
General Editor Note
Preface
Introduction
Part
1. Doctrines: Theological Words Against Death
1. Charles Drelincourt, The Christian Defence Against the Fears of Death,
(Liverpool: Nuttall, Fisher, and Co, 1810 [ 1651]), pp. 42-49.
2. John Angell James, The Antidote of Death, (London: Hamilton Adams, 1856),
pp. 3-12, 17-26.
3. Henry Mitchinson, The Death of the Righteous, (London: Simpkin Marshall,
1859), pp.3-14.
4. John Asgill, An Argument to Prove that Death is not Obligatory on
Christians, (London: Ennis Bros, 1875), pp. 62-66; 125-126.
5. Stewart Salmond, The Doctrine of Final Destinies, The Christian Doctrine
of Immortality, (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1901), pp. 353; 389-394.
6. Edward Cure, Sudden Death: Is It to be Deprecated? (London: Rivington,
1883), pp. 3-15.
7. William Knox, A Clerical Symposium on what are the Foundations of the
Belief in the Immortality of Man, (James Nisbet and Co., 1885), pp. 30-62.
8. Thomas Erskine, The Brazen Serpent; or, Life Coming Through Death,
(Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1879), pp. 84-95, 126-137.
9. James Fleming, Recognition in Eternity, (London: Skeffington, 1899), pp.
3-12.
Part
2. Devotions: Coping with Death, Transforming Grief
10. Richard Whately, A View of the Scripture Revelations concerning a Future
State laid before his Parishioners by a Country Pastor, (London: Parker &
Sons, 1882), pp. 88-93.
11. Francis Paget, The Lords Prayer: A Manual for the Mourner in The
Living and the Dead: A Course of Practical Sermons on the Burial Service,
(Cambridge: John Thomas Walters, 1845), pp. 193-207.
12. Richard Price, On the Reasons for Expecting that Virtuous Men Shall Meet
after Death in a State of Happiness, (London: Unknown, 1798), pp. 3-13,
21-27.
13. William Dealtry, The Character and Happiness of them that Die in the
Lord, (London: Hatchard & Son, 1822), pp. 20-47.
14. James Montgomery, A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, (Philadelphia: J. Ditson
& Co, 1883), pp. 3-5.
15. Jeremy Taylor, Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, (Longmans, Green, and
Co, 1850 [ 1650]), pp. 9-34, 35-50, 68-78.
16. Anon, A Token for Mourners, with a Selection of Scripture Promises,
Relative to the Troubles of Life, (Glasgow: Booksellers, 1855), pp. 18-23.
17. John Keble, The Burial of the Dead in The Christian Year, (London: Dent
& Co, 1900 [ 1827]), pp. 273-274.
18. Anon, The Christian's Consolation in the Hour of Domestic Distress,
(London: F and C Rivington, 1793), pp. iii-iv; 30-43.
19. William Alexander, The Mystery of Sickness in The Great Question and
Other Sermons, (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885), pp. 30-44.
20. Samuel Johnson, His Wifes Death, in Elton Trueblood (Ed.), Doctor
Johnsons Prayers, (London: SCM Press, 1947 [ 1782]), pp. 79-85.
Part
3. Duties in Common and Private Contexts
21. Thomas Scott, The Duty and Advantage of Remembering Deceased Ministers,
(London: J. Seely, 1808), pp. 1-35.
22. James Fleming, The Forsaken Hero, (London: Larner and Knight, 1885), pp.
3-12.
23. Noah Miles, A Sermon on the Death of George Washington, late President,
and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America
(Amherst, MA: S. Preston, 1800), pp. 5-16.
24. Charles Vaughan, The Mourning of the Land and the Mourning of its
Families, (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1861), pp. 5-17.
25. John Miller, Things After Death: Three
Chapters on the Intermediate
State, (London: J. Rivington, 1848), pp. 41-64.
26. Henry Liddon, Life in Death: A Sermon at the Funeral of the Lord Bishop
of Salisbury (Salisbury: Brown & Co., 1869), pp. 3-15.
27. Francis Paget, Faith, Patience, Thankfulness: The Graces of Bereavement
in The Living and the Dead: A Course of Practical Sermons on the Burial
Service, (Cambridge: John T. Walters, 1845), pp. 41-58.
28. James MacGregor, The State of the Christian Dead, (Edinburgh: Blackwood,
1897), pp. 3-22.
29. Nicholas Chevalier,Service of Thanksgiving for the Recovery of Edward,
Prince of Wales, from Sickness and Mortal Danger (1872)
Part
4. Dramatic Discourses
30. John Macgowan, Death, a Vision; or, the Solemn Departure of Saints and
Sinners, Represented under the Similitude of a Dream, (London, W. Baynes,
1796), pp. 46-56.
31. Eli Forbes, Sorrow Balanced with Joy: A Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev.
Benjamin Tappan, (London: T. Cushing, 1790), pp. 5-15.
32. Benjamin Mardon, The Evanescence of Human Glory (London: Smallfield,
1837), pp. 5-29.
33. John G. Hewlett, The Sunset of Youth, (London: Ward, 1847), pp. 7-35.
34. Anon, Life Beyond the Grave, as Described by a Spirit, through a Writing
Medium, (London: E.W. Allen, 1876), pp. 40-49.
35. E.B. Crawford, A Dialogue Between Death and the Sinner, (Dublin: Unknown,
1870), p.1.
36. Elizabeth Rowe, Friendship in Death: Letters from the Dead to the Living,
(W. Nicholson, 1808), pp. 1-4; 9-12; 25-30.
37. H.O.F, The Hour of Death and the Invisible World, (London: James Nisbet &
Co, 1882), pp. 1-13, 31-41.
38. George MacDonald, Letters from Hell, (London: Richard Bentley & Son,
1885), pp. 1-14.
39. Robert Rogers, What Kind of Place is Heaven? in Views of the New
Heaven: Lectures on the Inhabitants, Phenomena, and Order of the World to
Come, (London: James Speirs, 1902), pp. 47-68, 128-149
40. Thomas Rowlandson, The English Dance of Death, (London: Ackermann, 1816),
pp. 290-295.
Index
Douglas Davies is Professor of Theology at Durham University, with interests in death, mourning, and crematoria.
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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