Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914: Volume I: Literary, Cultural and Material Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning

by Douglas Davies (Editor), Matthew McCullough (Editor), Mark Sandy (Editor), Geoffrey Scarre (Editor), Ricky Whitefield (Editor)

Overview

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Primary sources explore death and mourning from literary, spiritual, historical, and intellectual perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emotions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032282633
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/06/2025
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mark Sandy is Professor of English Literature at Durham University, with research interests in Romantic poetics of loss, grief, memory, and mourning.

Douglas Davies is Professor of Theology at Durham University, with interests in death, mourning, and crematoria.

Geoffrey Scarre is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Durham University, with research interests in death, ethics, and posterity.

Matthew McCullough is a Doctoral Researcher in Musicology at Durham University, and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies, with research interests in music as a form of memorialisation.

Rick Whitefield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University in Theology and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies with interests in anthropology, memory, and mourning.

Table of Contents

Volume 1. Literary, Cultural and Material Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning

 

Acknowledgements                                                                                                          

List of Illustrations

General Editor Note                                                                                                                

Preface                                                                                                                                    

Introduction 

 

Part 1. Encountering Death

 

1.         Mary Ward, 'An Invitation to Death', in Original Poetry (Bath: Hazard and Binns, 1807), pp. 67-69 

2.         Elizabeth Lenox-Conyngham, ‘Death the Mediator’, ‘What is Death?’ and ‘The Memory of Grief’  Hella, and Other Poems (London: Edward Churton, 1836), 102-105; 120-22; 126-129.

3.         Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'In Memoriam' (Stanzas VII-XIX), 1850

4.         Lucy Ann Thorne, ‘Lines written on the death of a friend' in Poems (Leeds: H.W. Walker, 1864), pp. 29-30.

5.         Margaret Veley, 'A Dream of Life and Death' in A Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1888), 98-102.

6.         M.A. Merry, ‘To My Dead Wife’, ‘In Memorium’ and ‘Post Somnum’, in Poems (London: Publisher unknown, c.1890), p. 6, 12, 25.

7.         Mathilda Fry, ‘Thy Name has Passed’ and ‘The Last Sleep’, in Historic Poems and Other Poems (London: Barclay and Fry, 1890), pp. 117-118; 135-137.

8.         Arabella Shore, ‘In Memorium’ and ‘Sonnets to Two of the Dead’, in Elegies and Memorials (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1890), pp. 38-43, 50-51.

 

Part 2. Child Fatality and Loss

9.         Anon, ‘Parental Comfort, in Parental Sorrow, addressed principally to Christian Parents mourning the Death of Infant Children’ in The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, 5 (1842), p. 83.

10.       Anon, ‘To Mourning Friends: On the Death of an Only Child, Written by a Boy Nine Year Old’ in The Rural Repository Devoted to Polite Literature, vol.14, 16 (1838), p.128.

11.       John Clare, ‘Graves of Infants’ (1844)

12.       Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Threnody’ (1842)

13.       Thomas De Quincey, ‘The Affliction of Childhood’ in Suspiria De Profundis (1845)

14.       Anon, Memoir of Thomas W. Hughes, Who Died at the Age of Seven (Religious Tract Society, c.1830), pp. 20-31.

15.       E. B. Crawford, ‘Lines on the Death of an Infant’ in Sons & Daughters (North Shields: George Walker, 1850), p. 207.

16.       Anon, ‘Widow MacFarlane’s Lamentation for Her Son’ in Broadside Ballad (Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c.1853), p. 96.

17.       Eliza Benson, ‘Lines Written in Consolation of a Friend On Death of Her Daughter’ in Lays of Memory Sacred and Social by a Mother and her Son (London: Hurston and Blackett, 1856), pp. 118-119.

18.       Charlotte Mary Griffiths, ‘The Dying Blind Girl’ in Gone with the Storm and Minor Poems (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c.1874), pp. 81-84.

19.       Roden Noel, ‘At His Grave’ and ‘A Little Child’s Monument: Lament’, A Little Child’s Monument (London, Kegan Paul & Co., 1881), pp. ix-xi; 1-2.

20.       C.H. Sorely, ‘All the Hills and Vales Along’

21.       Rupert Brooke, ‘Sonnet IV The Dead’ (1914)

 

Part 3. Memory, Mourning, and Pets

22.       Lord Byron, ‘Inscription on a Monument of a Newfoundland Dog’ (1808)

23.       E. B. Crawford, ‘A Poem Written on the Funeral of Prince Albert’s Greyhound, Eos’ in Broadside Ballad (Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1844).

24.       Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Flush or Faunus’ (1854)

25.       E Davidson, ‘Farewell to Flossy’ in The Death of King Theodore and Other Poems (Newcastle: E. J. Blake; Alnwick: H., et al., 1874), pp. 74-75.

26.       W. Archer, ‘On the Death of the Speaking Canary Bird’ in The Mirror, July 1839, p. 227. 

27.       Anon, ‘Elegy on a Canary’ in Quiver, July 1863, p. 272.

28.       Matthew Arnold, ‘Poor Matthias!’, MacMillan’s Magazine, no. 278, vol. xlvii, 1882, pp. 81-85

 

Part 4 . Mourning Public Figures

29.       William Beatty, Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson (London: Cadell and Davis, London, 1808), pp. 49-53.

30.       Robert Southey, The Life of Nelson (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861 [1813]), pp. 374-377.

31.       Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ‘On the Death of the Princess Charlotte’ (1817

32.       Robert Southey, ‘Funeral Song, For the Death of Princess Charlotte’ (1817) in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: Complete in One Volume (London: Longmans, 1847), pp. 465-466.

33.       Lord Byron ‘Canto IV’ in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1818) 

34.       Charles Rann Kennedy, 'Poem on the Death of Charlotte Princess of Wales' (1817) in Poems, Original and Translated (London: William Walker, 1857), pp. 219-233.

35.       Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (London: Edward Moxon, 1852), pp. 1-16.

36.       Thomas Braithwaite, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, (London: W. Pickering, 1852), pp. 5-15.

37.       Walter R. Cassels, 'Sonnets On the Death of the Duke of Wellington' in Poems (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1856), pp. 129-132.

38.       William Stone, ‘Elegy to the Memory of the Immortal Wellington’, (1852) in A Panegyric in Honour of the Duke of Wellington, ed. Walter B. May (Taunton: Frederick May Printing, 1854), pp. 39-50.

39.       Thomas Hughes, ‘Finis’ in Tom Brown’s School Days (1857) reprinted by Macmillan & Co., London, 1882), pp. 352-360.

40.       Walt Whitman, ‘When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d’ (1865)

41.       Caroline A. Mason, ‘President Lincoln’s Grave’ in The Lost Ring and Other Poems (New York: Houghton Mifflin, c.1891), pp. 186-187.

42.       Emily Leith, ‘General Gordon’ in Thoughts and Remembrance: Verses, (Glasgow: David Bryce and Sons, 1885), pp. 61-62.

 

Part 5. Music, Memorial, and Memory

43.       ‘The Music at Nelson’s Funeral in St. Paul’s Cathedral’ in The Musical Times, 46, 752 (1905).

44.       Ernest Newman, ‘Brahms’s German Requiem’ in The Musical Times, 52, 817 (1911), pp. 157-159.

45.       Anon, ‘St James’s Hall Popular Concerts’ programme (1859), including the ‘Death Notice of Dr Louis Spohr’, p. 5.

46.       Anon, ‘More Press Eulogies on the Late William Steinway’ in Freund’s Musical Weekly, Vol. 16, no. 11 (1897), pp. 1-2.

47.       Anon, ‘By Order of the Queen…’ in a Grand Irish Festivals Programme (1900), p. 2.

48.       Anon, ‘In Memoriam. Queen Victoria’ in The Musical Times Feb. 1^st, 1902, p. 95.

49.       Anon, ‘Memorial services relating to King Edward VII’, The Musical Times, Vol.51, No.808, (1910).

50.       Memorial to the Musicians of the Titanic Disaster, 14 April 1912, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

51.       Anon, ‘Lifeboats would have saved more’ and 'Nearer my God to thee', The Washington Herald, 20 April, 1912.

52.       Memorial to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (d.1912), Brandon Hill Cemetery, Wallington, Borough of Sutton, London.

 

Part 6. Mausolea and Architectural Memorials

53.       The Argyll Mausoleum (1795-6).

54.       The Rockingham Mausoleum (1785).

55.        The Cotton Mausoleum/Waterloo Tower (1819).

56.        The Cunningham Mausoleum (1797).

57        The Bowes Mausoleum (built, c.1760; consecrated in 1812).

58.       The Buckinghamshire Mausoleum (1794).

59.       The Bourgeois and Desenfans Mausoleum (1807-14).

Index