The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Literature and the Arts
Llewellyn, N. 1991
The Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual c1500-1800, London: Reaktion Books.
MacNeill Miller, J. 2017
‘Composing decomposition: In Memoriam and the ecocritical undertaking’, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 39:5, 383-398.
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Mann, B. 2000
‘Modernism and the Zionist uncanny: reading the old cemetery in Tel Aviv’, Representations, 69 : 63-95.
Marshall, N. 2014
‘“A fully consummated sacrifice upon her altar”: Victorian cremation as metamorphosis’, Victorian Studies, 56:3, 458-469.
Marshall, T 1995
Murdering to Dissect: Grave-robbing, Frankenstein and the Anatomy Literature, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Matthews, S. 2007
‘The London Necropolis: suburban cemeteries and the necropolitan imaginary’, in L. Phillips (ed.) A Mighty Mass of Brick and Stone: Victorian and Edwardian Representations of London, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 257-281.
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Matthews, S. 2004
Poetical Remains: Poets’ Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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McAllister, D. 2018
Imagining the Dead in British Literature and Culture, 1790-1848, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
McAllister, D. 2013
‘Living with the Dead in Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads’, Modern Language Review, 108, 416-437.
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Meyer, R. 2007
‘ “Death possesses a good deal of real estate”, references to gravestones and burial grounds in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Amrican Notebooks and selected fictional works’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 39:1, 1-28.
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Millim, A-M. 2019
‘From “Es war einmal” to “Es war nicht”: Batty Weber and the poetry of cemeteries in the 1910s’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg: CapybaraBooks, 189-91.
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Parisot, E., McAllister, D, & Reyes, X. 2024
(eds) Graveyard Gothic, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Penk, N. 2020
Tales of the dead: narrating Highgate Cemetery between nostalgia and heterotopia’, in M-T. Mäder, A. Saviello & B. Scolari (eds) Highgate Cemetery: Image Practices in Past and Present, ebooks, Nomos, 217-233.
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Petrucci, A. (trans M. Sullivan) 1998
Writing the Dead: Death and Writing Strategies in the Western Tradition, Stanford, CA: Standford University Press.
Robertson, J. 2017
‘Sea-changed: Felicia Hemans and burial at sea in the 19th century imaginary’, Gothic Stories, 19:2.
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Scandura, J. 1996
‘Deadly professions: Dracula, undertakers and the embalmed corpse’, Victorian Studies, 40, 1, 1-30.
Schwyzer, P. 2007
Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stevens Curl, J. 1994
‘Young’s “Night Thoughts” and the origins of the garden cemetery’, Journal of Garden History, 14, 2, 92-118.
Sunnen, M. 2019
“Murs de lumière”: Théo Kerg et l’art funéraire’, S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 133-140.
Thill, V. 2019
‘The end. Les cimetières dans les documentaires et films de fiction luxembourgeois’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 177-180.
