If the academic field of death studies is a prosperous one, there still seems to be a level of mistrust concerning the capacity of literature to provide sociall

Death is an inevitable, yet mysterious event. Fiction is one way to imagine and gain knowledge of death. Death is very useful to literature, as it creates plot

This volume visits death in children’s literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the dialogue between the expanding fields of Chi

The volume presents essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches produce freshinsights into a subject which has received increased i

Considering the trope of woman/death, the eroticizing of death, and the ways in which the gendered subject is represented in dialogue with the processes of deat