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Woods Robert |
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Titolo |
Children remembered [[electronic resource] ] : responses to untimely death in the past / / Robert Woods |
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Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-78138-048-1 |
1-84631-282-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Infants - Death - Psychological aspects |
Infants - Death - Religious aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Title Page; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Illustrations; 1: Introduction: 'the lines of life'; 2: Après la mort des enfants; 3: Mortality, Childcare and Mourning; 4: Children in Pictures and Monuments; 5: Emotions and Literature; 6: Poems, Mainly of Child Loss; 7: The Vocabulary of Grief; 8: Parallel Histories: Experience and Expression; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Sixty-Nine Poems; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Children Remembered discusses the relationship between parents and children in the past, exploring the experience of parental grief over four centuries in America, England and France. The book engages with the hypothesis of 'parental indifference' associated with the French cultural historian Philippe Ariès by analysing the changing risk of mortality since the sixteenth century and assessing its consequences. Woods examines paintings and poems in ways that are highly original, transforming these creative expressions into a unique form of historical evidence that challenges traditional discipli |
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