Representations of Childhood Death

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Folklore of Infant Deaths: Burials, Ghosts and Changelings

Chapter 3 Child Death in British and North American Ballads from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 4 ‘[An] Impe entombed here doth lie’: the Besford Triptych and Child Memorials in Post-Reformation England

Chapter 5 ‘A heart terrifying Sorrow’: the Deaths of Children in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Manuscript Journals

Chapter 6 Intimations of Mortality: the Puritan and Evangelical Message to Children

Chapter 7 ‘Ye careless, thoughtless, worldly parents, tremble while you read this history!’: the Use and Abuse of the Dying Child in the Evangelical Tradition

Chapter 8 Children’s Death in Dickens: a Chapter in the History of Taste

Chapter 9 Friedrich Rückert’s Kindertotenlieder

Chapter 10 Fatal Fantasies: the Death of Children in Victorian and Edwardian Fantasy Writing

Chapter 11 Dead Rite: Adolescent Horror Fiction and Death

Chapter 12 Reflexions on Dead Children in the Cinema and Why there are Not More of Them

Chapter 13 Conclusion, Part I: Death, Sex and God: Sociological and Religious Accounts of the Death of the Young

Chapter 14 Conclusion, Part II: Grieving Parents, Grieving Children