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Item Details
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REPRESENTATIONS OF CHILDHOOD DEATH
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| By: |
Gillian Avery (Editor), Kimberley Reynolds (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£116.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333695798 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333695791 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
3 December, 1999 |
| Pages: |
262 |
| Description: |
This text addresses the subject with discussions which range from analyses of the ways dead and dying children are represented in folklore, ballads and funeral monuments through 17th-century diaries, fantasy fiction, horror stories and on film. |
| Synopsis: |
Before this century, death in childhood was common. Now that we expect children to survive and thrive, childhood death is treated as peculiarly poignant and shocking; especially as it seems so often to be accompanied by violence. Incidents such as the massacres at Dunblane, Arkansas and Colorado, combined with terrorist attacks, wars and murderous abductions, have placed childhood death firmly in the public consciousness. Moreover, we have become accustomed to seeing images of children dying as a consequence of famine, or that twentieth-century plague, AIDS. But how do we understand these events? What does it means for a child to die? Representations of Childhood Death examines the way the deaths of children have been dealt with at different times and in different media. Each contributor has focused on a different way of representing the deaths of children - from superstitions about malign child ghosts through mothers' diaries to horror fiction - and more. This highly readable collection of essays offers valuable insights into how we understand and grieve for children who die. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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