Representations of childhood death / edited by Gillian Avery and Kimberley Reynolds.

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000.

xvi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

The folklore of infant deaths : burials, ghosts and changelings / Jacqueline Simpson -- Child death in British and North American ballads from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / Vic Gammon -- '[An] impe entombed here doth lie' : the Besford triptych and child memorials in post-Reformation England / Nigel Llewellyn -- 'A heart terrifying sorrow' : the deaths of children in seventeenth-century women's manuscript journals / Elizabeth Clarke -- Intimations of mortality : the Puritan and evangelical message to children / Gillian Avery -- 'Ye careless, thoughtless, worldly parents, tremble while you read this history!' : the use and abuse of the dying child in the evangelical tradition / Elisabeth Jay -- Children's death in Dickens : a chapter in the history of taste / A.O.J. Cockshut -- Friedrich Rückert's Kindertotenlieder / Eda Sagarra -- Fatal fantasies : the death of children in Victorian and Edwardian fantasy writing / Kimberley Reynolds -- Dead rite : adolescent horror fiction and death / Kevin McCarron -- Reflexions on dead children in the cinema and why there are not more of them / John O. Thompson -- Conclusion, part I : Death, sex and God : sociological and religious accounts of the death of the young / Paul Yates -- Conclusion, part II : Grieving parents, grieving children / Janet Goodall.

Includes bibliographical references and index.