Death in Modern Scotland 1st edition by Susan Buckham, Peter Jupp, Julie Rugg ISBN 3034318219 978-3034318211

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ISBN 10: 3034318219
ISBN 13: 978-3034318211
Author: Susan Buckham, Peter Jupp, Julie Rugg

The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians and literary figures, both before and after the Great War. At the same time, medical and legal developments began to shift mortality into the realms of regulation and control. This interdisciplinary collection draws from the fields of art, literature, social history, religion, demography, legal history and architectural and landscape history. The essays employ a range of methodologies and materials – visual, statistical, archival and literary – to illustrate the richness of the primary sources for studying death in Scotland. They highlight a number of intersecting themes, including spirituality and the afterlife, the impact of war, materiality and the disposal of the body, providing new perspectives on how attitudes towards death have affected human behaviour on both personal and public levels, and throwing into relief some of the unique features of Scottish society.

Death in Modern Scotland 1st Table of contents:

Introduction

Part I Death in Art and Literature

1. Phoebe Anna Traquair: Angels and Changing Concepts of the Supernatural in fin-de-siècle Scotland

2. Death, Mourning and Memory: Two Apocalypse Windows by Douglas Strachan

3. ‘The Glen of Gloom’: The Massacre of Glencoe in Victorian Visual Culture

4. Stevenson and Doyle in the Face of Death

5. ‘To Die Will be an Awfully Big Adventure’: Death and J.M. Barrie

6. John Buchan’s Fortieth Step

Part II A Century of Deaths, Scotland 1855–1955

7. A Century of Deaths, Scotland 1855–1955: A View from the Civil Registers

8. The Legal Status of Corpses and Cremains: When and Where Can you Steal a Dead Body?

9. The Investigation of Sudden and Accidental Deaths in Mid-Victorian Scotland

Part III Landscapes and Buildings of Death

10. Landscaping for the Dead: The Garden Cemetery Movement in Dundee and Angus

11. ‘Not Architects of Decay’: The Influence of Graveyard Management on Scottish Burial Landscapes

12. Designs on Death: The Architecture of Scottish Crematoria 1895–1955

Part IV Death and Religion

13. ‘Where are our Dead?’ Changing Views of Death and the Afterlife in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Presbyterianism

14. ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’: Some Scottish Presbyterian Chaplains and their Responses to the Burial of the Dead during World War One

15. ‘We Can do Nothing for the Dead’: The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland’s Approach to Death and Funerals

Notes on Contributors

Index

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