Pantheon: Cultural/Celebrity

Baker, S. 2004

‘Tales from the crypt/a Surrealist pantheon’, in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 167-192.

Craske, M. 2004

‘Westminster Abbey: a public pantheon built upon private interest’, in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 57-80.

Dović M. & Helgason, J. 2016

National Poets, Cultural Sains: Canonization and Commemorative Cults of Writers in Europe, Brill.

Kazmier, L. 2001

‘Her final performance: British culture, mourning and the memorialisation of Ellen Terry’, Mortality, 6:2, 167-190.

Levitt, L. 2018

Culture, Celebrity, and the Cemetery: Hollywood Forever. London: Routledge.

Levitt, L. 2018

‘Fandom and its afterlife: celebrity cemetery tourism’, in C. Lundberg & V. Ziakas (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism, London: Routledge, 195-200.

Matthews, S. 2002

‘Burying Tennyson: the Victorian Laureate immortalised’, Mortality, 7:3, 247-68.

Pasquali, S. 2004

‘From the pantheon of artists to the pantheon of illustrious men: Raphael’s tomb and its legacy’, in R. Wrigley & M. Craske (eds) Pantheons: Transformations of a Monumental Idea, Aldershot: Ashgate, 35-56.

Pavićević, A. 2009

‘Welcoming the dead people: exhumation and reburial of famous deceased in Serbia’, in M. Rotar, V. Tudor Roşu & H. Frisby (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 306-325.

Renaudet, I. 2023

‘La seconde vie d’Eva Péron, de la Belle endormie à l’errance mortuarire’, in A. Carol & I. Renaudet (eds) Des Morts qui Dérogent: Á L’Écart des Normes Funéraires XIXe-XXe siècles, Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universaires de Provence, 83-104.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract