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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団体著者: SpringerLink (Online service)
その他の著者: McCorristine, Shane (編集者)
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
シリーズ:Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
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オンライン・アクセス:http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58328-4
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目次:
  • 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.