Life Writing and Death

One thing in life we can be certain of: death. But how we talk about death—its inevitability, its causes and its course, its effects, or its places—is susceptible to changing cultural conditions. Reviewing a history of death that begins in prehistory, the distinguished historian of death Thomas Laqueur doubts it is possible to comprehend (in both senses) the topic: ‘Our awareness of death and the dead stands at the edge of culture. As such they may not have a history in the usual sense but only more and more iterations, endless and infinitely varied, that we shape into n engagement with the past and the present’

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Genealogy · Literature · Prehistory · Sociology · Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning · Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Philosophy

• Green space and loneliness

  Open Access•Thomas Astell-Burt, Terry Hartig et al.•The Science of The Total…•2022

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• She Loved This Place’

  Anne Karpf•Life Writing•2025

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• Contact with nature, nature prescriptions, and loneliness

  Open Access•Thomas Astell-Burt, Michelle C Kondo et al.•Health & Place•2024

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• The Victorian celebration of death

  James Stevens Curl•The Victorian celebration of death•1972

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• Imagining the Dead in British Literature and Culture, 1790–1848

  Open Access•David McAllister•Imagining the Dead in British…•2018

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• Alone together

  Damián Fernández Pedemonte•Choice Reviews Online•2011

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• Quoting death in early modern England. The poetics of epitaphs beyond the tomb

  Elizabeth Heale•Mortality•2010

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• Introduction

  Erica Borgstrom, Julie Ellis•Mortality•2017

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• Last Landscapes

  Doris Francis, Ken Worpole•Garden History•2003

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• Performing the good death

  Karen Thornton, C B Phillips et al.•Medical Humanities•2009

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• Emblems of Death in the Early Modern Period

  Monica Calabritto, Peter Daly et al.•Renaissance and Reformation•2016

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• The English Elegy

  Melissa Zeiger, Peter Sacks•Modern Language Notes•1985

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• A Time to Mourn

  Kenneth L Ames, Martha V Pike et al.•The Journal of Interdisciplinary…•1982

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