Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914

ISBN 10: 1032282622 / ISBN 13: 9781032282626

Published by Routledge, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032282622
• ISBN 13: 9781032282626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

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.