Highgate Cemetery : image practices in past and present / Baldassare Scolari, Alberto Saviello, Marie-Therese Mäder, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scolari, Baldassare, editor.

Saviello, Alberto, editor.

Mäder, Marie-Therese, editor.

Series:

Media and Religion | Medien und Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries--England--London--History.

Cemeteries.

Highgate Cemetery (London, England).

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Highgate Cemetery

Place of Publication:

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2020

[Place of publication not identified] : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The famous Highgate Cemetery in London has stimulated people’s imaginations for over 150 years. Accompanied by an introduction to the history of the cemetery, this book provides fourteen in-depth articles which describe and analyse the site of Highgate Cemetery and the practices and images that have been both linked to it and provoked by it. These articles highlight different aspects, including the cemetery’s scenic and architectural setting, the use of religious signs and symbols on its gravestones, the interplay between its parkland environment and the representations of nature on its monuments, its past and contemporary social and religious meanings as well as its depictions in literature, film and guided tours. The articles provide new and surprising insights into one of London’s most intriguing sites. With contributions by Dolores Zoé Bertschinger, Carla Danani, Natalie Fritz, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Ann Jeffers, Marie-Therese Mäder, Alexander Darius Ornella, Niels Penke, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Sean Ryan, Alberto Saviello, Baldassare Scolari, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Michael Ulrich The famous Highgate Cemetery in London has stimulated people’s imaginations for over 150 years. Accompanied by an introduction to the history of the cemetery, this book provides fourteen in-depth articles which describe and analyse the site of Highgate Cemetery and the practices and images that have been both linked to it and provoked by it. These articles highlight different aspects, including the cemetery’s scenic and architectural setting, the use of religious signs and symbols on its gravestones, the interplay between its parkland environment and the representations of nature on its monuments, its past and contemporary social and religious meanings as well as its depictions in literature, film and guided tours. The articles provide new and surprising insights into one of London’s most intriguing sites. With contributions by Dolores Zoé Bertschinger, Carla Danani, Natalie Fritz, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Ann Jeffers, Marie-Therese Mäder, Alexander Darius Ornella, Niels Penke, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Sean Ryan, Alberto Saviello, Baldassare Scolari, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Michael Ulrich

Contents:

Cover

Image Practices at Highgate Past and Present

Introduction

Heterotopia and Liminality: Cemeteries as Spaces of Image Production

Images as Socio-Religious Practices

Image, Imagination and Imaginary: Production and Exchange of Meaning

Coping with Death and Liminal Experiences

Bibliography

I. The Broader Image

Experiencing Highgate Cemetery as a Place Landscape, Text, Threshold

1. Approaching Highgate

2. Highgate as a Landscape

3. Highgate Cemetery as a Text

4. Highgate as a Threshold

5. Place as Event

Bibliography Performing Difference in Front of Death Material, Bodily and Spatial Practice

1. Walking through a Victorian Cemetery Today

2. Materiality at Work

3. Bodily Encounters

4. Graves as Multi-layered Places

5. Staging Diversity Facing a Common Condition

The Politics of Death

Death and Politics in Victorian England

1. Introduction

2. The Intellectual Climate

3. The Population Explosion

4. The Body, Ethics, Hygiene and Aesthetics

II. Politics of Images

Looking for Jenny & Co

The Image as Practice for a Feminist Imaginary 1. Is Highgate a Women's Place?

2. Jenny von Westphalen: The Socialist Networker

3. Ernestine L. Rose: The Freethinking Suffragette

4. Anna Mahler: The Restless Sculptress

5. Radclyffe Hall: The Spiritist Writer

6. The Image as Practice for a Feminist Imaginary

Remembering Karl Marx

Image - Icon - Idol

1. The Iconisation of Karl Marx

2. The «Blind» Idolatrisation of Marx

3. The Marx Memorial in Highgate Cemetery

4. Mike Leigh's Film High Hopes

Sport as Bodily Practice of Remembrance

Remembering Heroes, Remembering Nations 1. Introduction

2. Tom Sayers: The Hero and The Memorial

3. Creating Heroes

4. Remembering Heroes

Practicing Nationhood

5. Remembering through Body Practice

6. Mourning

7. Remembering Heroes

8. Concluding Evaluation

III. Image Cultivation

Public Events at a Historic-Religious Site

Highgate Cemetery in London as a Cultural Practice

To Remember Human Finitude in the Paratexts of the Cemetery

Highgate Events as Practices to Resist the Erasure of Oblivion

The Socio-Religious Practice of Guided Tours 4. Public Events at Highgate as Socio-Religious Practice

Highgate Cemetery at a Crossroads

How to Take the Right Turn? A Contribution Based on the Economic Theory of Clubs

IV. Fantastic Images

Tales of the Dead

Narrating Highgate Cemetery between Nostalgia and Heterotopia

2. Literary Traditions: Epitaphs and Graveyard Poetry

3. Shaping Highgate: Horror and Glory

4. Highgate in Literature between Nostalgia & Heterotopia

5. (Literary) Tourism and Social Reading

6. Conclusion

Primary Sources.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1228647401