Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings When is Death? /
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the l...
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| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Series: | Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4 |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction; Shane McCorristine.- Chapter 2. Being Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy; Mary Ann Lund.- Chapter 3 . 'A Candidate for Immortality’: Martyrdom, Memory, and the Marquis of Montrose; Rachel Bennett.- Chapter 4. Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium; Veronique Deblon and Kaat Wils.- Chapter 5. Premature Burial and the Undertakers; Brian Parsons.- Chapter 6. The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler’s Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany; Caroline Sharples
- Chapter 7. Death’s Impossible Date; Douglas J. Davies.- Chapter 8. The Legal Definition of Death and the Right to Life; Elizabeth Wicks.- Chapter 9. The Last Moment; Jonathan Rée.- Chapter 10. Afterword; Thomas W. Laqueur
- Index.