The Work of the Dead
A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2019
736 pages
978-1-4008-7451-4 (ISBN)
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Thomas W. Laqueur is the Helen Fawcett Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation, and Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780-1850. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Work of the Dead
- PART I THE DEEP TIME OF THE DEAD
- 1 Do the Dead Matter?
- 2 The Dead Body and the Persistence of Being
- 3 The Cultural Work of the Dead
- PART II PLACES OF THE DEAD
- 4 The Churchyard and the Old Regime
- The Development of the Churchyard
- Language
- Place
- The Church and Churchyard in the Landscape
- Necrogeography
- Necrobotany
- Necrotopology and Memory
- The Life and Afterlife of the Churchyard in Literature
- The Passage of the Dead to the Churchyard
- Law
- Exclusion from the Churchyard
- The Claims of the Dead Body on the Parish Churchyard
- The Claims of the Parish on the Dead Body
- The Economics of Churchyard Burial
- The Right to Burial and the Crisis of the Old Regime
- Enlightenment Scandals
- Voltaire
- David Hume
- 5 The Cemetery and the New Regime
- The Danger of the Dead and the Rise of the Cemetery
- Genealogies of the New Regime
- Imagination: Elysium, Arcadia, and the Dead of the Eighteenth Century
- Cimetière du Père- Lachaise
- Distant Lands and the Imperial Imagination
- The Age of the Cemetery
- Novelty
- Necrogeography and Necrobotany
- Cemeteries and Capitalism
- Religious Pluralism in the Age of the Cemetery
- Reform, Revolution, and the Cemetery
- Class, Family, and the Cemetery
- Putting the Dead in Their Place: Pauper Funerals and Proper Funerals, Burials and Reburials
- Disrupted Bodies
- PART III NAMES OF THE DEAD
- 6 The Names of the Dead in Deep Time
- Names of the Dead in Times of War
- Names of the Dead in Times of Peace
- 7 The Rise of the Names of the Dead in Modern History
- 8 The Age of Necronominalism
- Names over Bodies
- Names and the Absent but Present Body
- Monumental Names
- Names of the Vanished Dead
- 9 The Names of the Great War
- PART IV BURNING THE DEAD
- 10 Disenchantment and Cremation
- 11 Ashes and History
- Different Enchantments
- Ashes in Their Place
- Afterword: From a History of the Dead to a History of Dying
- Notes
- Image Credits
- Index
