Representations of Childhood Death

Download or read book Representations of Childhood Death written by G. Avery and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-12-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in childhood has, until well into the twentieth century, been more common than for any other age. Surprisingly, then, despite growing interest in how death is understood in Western culture and how the bodies of different groups are treated in death, there has been no sustained study of childhood death. Representations of Childhood Death addresses this silence with discussions which range from analyses of the ways dead and dying children are represented in folklore, ballads and funeral monuments through seventeenth-century diaries, fantasy fiction, horror stories and on film.