Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Body in Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
- The Body in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Medieval Somatics
- 3 Disability
- 4 Staging Early Modern Embodiment
- 5 Eating, Obesity and Literature
- 6 Language and the Body
- 7 The Maternal Body
- 8 Literary Sexualities
- 9 The Body, Pain and Violence
- 10 The Ageing Body
- 11 Representing Dead and Dying Bodies
- 12 The Racialized Body
- 13 Literature, Technology and the Senses
- 14 Literature and Neurology
- 15 Psychoanalytic Bodies
- 16 Literature and Affect
- 17 Posthuman Bodies
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
11 - Representing Dead and Dying Bodies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Body in Literature
- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature
- The Body in Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Medieval Somatics
- 3 Disability
- 4 Staging Early Modern Embodiment
- 5 Eating, Obesity and Literature
- 6 Language and the Body
- 7 The Maternal Body
- 8 Literary Sexualities
- 9 The Body, Pain and Violence
- 10 The Ageing Body
- 11 Representing Dead and Dying Bodies
- 12 The Racialized Body
- 13 Literature, Technology and the Senses
- 14 Literature and Neurology
- 15 Psychoanalytic Bodies
- 16 Literature and Affect
- 17 Posthuman Bodies
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to…
- References
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature , pp. 149 - 162Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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Magnússon, Finnur. ‘Narratives of Modern Dying: Looking for Authentic Death’, Pro Ethnologia 4 (1996): 81–8.Google Scholar
Mei-Wen Liu, Sarah. ‘As We Lay Dying: Coming to Terms with Death in Literary Modernism’. PhD diss. University of California, Berkeley, 2000.Google Scholar
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Schor, Esther. Bearing The Dead: The British Culture of Mourning from the Enlightenment to Victoria. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane. ‘Reading’ Greek Death: To the End of the Classical Period. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sugg, Richard. Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.CrossRefGoogle Scholar