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
Amadei, G. 2020
‘A new urban modernity? George Bernard Shaw’s written recollection of his mother’s cremation’, Thanatos, 9:2, 72-99.
Becher, C. 2021
‘Becoming a tree: exploring the entanglement of bodies, soil, and trees in natural burials’, Green Letters, 25:4, 403-414.
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Bell, D. & Bongiorni, K. (eds) 1996
Cemeteries and Spaces of Death: Inquiries into their Meaning, Xenos Books: Riverside CA.
Blake, K. 2019
‘Urban burial reform in Wordsworth’s “Village Churchyard”’, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 74:3, 279-304.
Bosto, R. & Mayerson, J. 2004
‘“In the palm of nature’s hand”: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s address at the consecration of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery’, Markers 21, 148-173.
Bryan, V. 2015
William Faulkner in the age of the modern funeral industry’, The Southern Quarterly, 53:1, 25-40.
Callan, P. 2021
‘A postcard from Mr Joyce to Ms Beach: death and commemoration at Glasnevin Cemetery in the Age of Ulysses’, James Joyce Quarterly, 58:4, 441-477.
Denton, M. 2003
‘Death in French Arcady: Nicolas Poussin’s ‘The Archaic Shepherds’ and burial reform in France’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, 36:2, 195-216.
Doherty, R. 2018
‘“Blest” or “t’othered”: alternative graveyards in Bleak House, Reynolds and Walker’, Victoriographies, 18:3, 267-289.
Dollimore, J. 1998
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture, London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press.
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Ehret, J. 2019
“Je me pose sur ton tombeau”: Médi(t)ation poétique d’Anise Koltz’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 193-4.
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Farland, M. 2007
‘Decomposing city: Walt Whitman’s New York and the science of life and death’, EHL, 74:4, 799-827.
Gilchrist, P. 2020
‘Lamenting the dead: the affective afterlife of poets’ graves’, in J. Micieli-Voutsinao and A. Person (eds) Affective Architectures: More-than-Representational Geographies of Heritage, London: Routledge, 151-167.
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Hobbs, J. 2006
‘Graveyards and the literary imagination’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 39:1, i-xi.
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Hoglund, S. 2016
‘Hidden agendas: the secret to early 19th century British burial reform’, in D. Tischler Millstein & A. Pionke (eds) Victorian Secrecy: Economices of Knowledge and Concealment, Abingdon: Routledge, 15-28.
Hotz, M. 2009
Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Karim, A. 2012
‘Conflict over burial of the dead: analysis of Sophocles’ Antigone and Robert Frost’s “Home Burial”’, Academic Research International, 3:2, 617-624.
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Karr-Cornejo, K. 2011
‘Gardens, cemeteries and the abyss: symbolic spaces in a selection of Nicanor Parra’s anti-poetry’, Taller de Letras, 48, 161-176.
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Kreibig, N. 2023
‘“I’ve never seen so many men wasted so badly”: on Francoist mass graves and a film set cemetery’, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, DOI.
Lieb, D. 2019
‘Das totendenkmal zwischen ‘fest’ und ‘flüssig’: zum gedicht ‘Stat’ von Claudine Muno’, in S. Kmec, R. Philippart & A. Reuter (eds) Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarrregionen, Luxembourg : CapybaraBooks, 195-6.
