Live to Die, Die to Live: An introduction to the special issue “Death/La Mort”
Peter Walmsley, McMaster University
Volume 21, no. 1, Fall 2008
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ABSTRACT
The essays in this collection all elaborate upon this eighteenth-century preoccupation, which is proclaimed in the common motto embossed or engraved on mourning rings: “Live to Die, Die to Live.” Such sentiments might seem alien to most twenty-first-century readers, and much of the social history of death over the last century dwells on the striking differences between early and later modern attitudes … DOI: 10.1353/ecf.0.0032
Other ECF articles on the topic of “Death/La Mort” include:
The Body of Her Work, the Work of Her Body: Accounting for the Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
by CYNTHIA RICHARDS (ECF 21.4, Summer 2009)
Alas, poor YORICK!: Sterne’s Iconography of Mourning
by HELEN WILLIAMS (ECF 28.2, Winter 2015-16)
With My Hair in Crystal: Mourning Clarissa
by KATHLEEN M. OLIVER (ECF 23.1, Fall 2010)
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