Memory, mourning, landscape / edited by Elizabeth Anderson [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Elizabeth.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 71.

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memorialization.

War memorials.

Mourning customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 218 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume sheds twenty-first-century light on the charged interactions between memory, mourning and landscape. A century after Freud, our understanding of how memory and mourning function continues to be challenged, revised and refined. Increasingly, scholarly attention is paid to the role of situation in memorialising, whether in commemorations of individuals or in marking the mass deaths of late modern warfare and disasters. Memory, Mourning, Landscape offers the nuanced insights provided by interdisciplinarity in nine essays by leading and up-and-coming academics from the fields of history, museum studies, literature, anthropology, architecture, law, geography, theology and archaeology. The vital visual element is reinforced with an illustrated coda by a practising artist. The result is a unique symbiotic dialogue which will speak to scholars from a range of disciplines.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Designing a War Museum: Some Reflections on Representations of War and Combat / Jay Winter

The Sacred Names of the Nation’s Dead: War and Remembrance in Revolutionary France / Joseph Clarke

Memory, Mourning, and Malvern Hill: Herman Melville and the Poetry of the American Civil War / Cynthia Wachtell

Tabulating Loss, Entombing Memory: The Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial Centre / Sarah Wagner

Lethean Landscapes: Forgetting in Late Modern Commemorative Spaces / Joel David Robinson

Morbid Family Pride: Private Memorials and Scots Law / Hilary Hiram

Memory, Mourning and Landscape in the Scottish Mountains: Discourses of Wilderness, Gender and Entitlement in Online Debates on Mountainside Memorials / Avril Maddrell

Seder and Imagined Landscape / Alana M. Vincent

Sailing Home: Boat-Graves, Migrant Identities and Funerary Practices on the Viking Frontier / Erin Halstad-McGuire

The Lido in the Forest: Memory, Landscape, Painting / Judith Tucker

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789042030879 (eBook)

OCLC:

671641398

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042030879 DOI