Highgate Cemetery

PD Dr. Marie-Therese Mäder; Dr. Alberto Saviello; Dr. Baldassare Scolari

doi:10.5771/9783845294520

Summary

The famous Highgate Cemetery in London has stimulated people’s imaginations for over 150 years. Accompanied by an introduction to the history of the cemetery, this book provides fourteen in-depth articles which describe and analyse the site of Highgate Cemetery and the practices and images that have been both linked to it and provoked by it. These articles highlight different aspects, including the cemetery’s scenic and architectural setting, the use of religious signs and symbols on its gravestones, the interplay between its parkland environment and the representations of nature on its monuments, its past and contemporary social and religious meanings as well as its depictions in literature, film and guided tours. The articles provide new and surprising insights into one of London’s most intriguing sites.With contributions byDolores Zoé Bertschinger, Carla Danani, Natalie Fritz, Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Ann Jeffers, Marie-Therese Mäder, Alexander Darius Ornella, Niels Penke, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Sean Ryan, Alberto Saviello, Baldassare Scolari, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Michael Ulrich

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Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-5277-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-9452-0
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Media and Religion | Medien und Religion
Volume: 1
Language: English
Pages: 376
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/InhaltsverzeichnisPages 1 - 10 Download chapter (PDF)
Marie-Therese Mäder, Alberto Saviello, Baldassare Scolari Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. Heterotopia and Liminality: Cemeteries as Spaces of Image Production
  2. Images as Socio-Religious Practices
  3. Image, Imagination and Imaginary: Production and Exchange of Meaning
  4. Coping with Death and Liminal Experiences
  5. Bibliography
I. The Broader ImagePages 31 - 32 Download chapter (PDF)
Carla Danani Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. Approaching Highgate
2. 2. Highgate as a Landscape
3. 3. Highgate Cemetery as a Text
4. 4. Highgate as a Threshold
5. 5. Place as Event
6. Bibliography
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. Walking through a Victorian Cemetery Today
2. 2. Materiality at Work
3. 3. Bodily Encounters
4. 4. Graves as Multi-layered Places
5. 5. Staging Diversity Facing a Common Condition
6. Bibliography
Ann Jeffers Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. The Intellectual Climate
  3. 3. The Population Explosion
  4. 4. The Body, Ethics, Hygiene and Aesthetics
  5. Bibliography
II. Politics of ImagesPages 91 - 92 Download chapter (PDF)
Dolores Zoé Bertschinger Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. Is Highgate a Women’s Place?
  2. 2. Jenny von Westphalen: The Socialist Networker
  3. 3. Ernestine L. Rose: The Freethinking Suffragette
  4. 4. Anna Mahler: The Restless Sculptress
  5. 5. Radclyffe Hall: The Spiritist Writer
  6. 6. The Image as Practice for a Feminist Imaginary
  7. Bibliography
Baldassare Scolari Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. The Iconisation of Karl Marx
  2. 2. The «Blind» Idolatrisation of Marx
  3. 3. The Marx Memorial in Highgate Cemetery
  4. 4. Mike Leigh’s Film High Hopes
  5. Bibliography
Alexander Darius Ornella Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Tom Sayers: The Hero and The Memorial
  3. 3. Creating Heroes
  4. 4. Remembering Heroes – Practicing Nationhood
  5. 5. Remembering through Body Practice
  6. 6. Mourning
  7. 7. Remembering Heroes
  8. 8. Concluding Evaluation
  9. Bibliography
III. Image CultivationPages 173 - 174 Download chapter (PDF)
Marie-Therese Mäder Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. To Remember Human Finitude in the Paratexts of the Cemetery
  2. Highgate Events as Practices to Resist the Erasure of Oblivion
  3. The Socio-Religious Practice of Guided Tours
  4. 4. Public Events at Highgate as Socio-Religious Practice
  5. Bibliography
Michael Leo Ulrich Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. Bibliography
IV. Fantastic ImagesPages 215 - 216 Download chapter (PDF)
Niels Penke Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. Literary Traditions: Epitaphs and Graveyard Poetry
  3. 3. Shaping Highgate: Horror and Glory
  4. 4. Highgate in Literature between Nostalgia & Heterotopia
  5. 5. (Literary) Tourism and Social Reading
  6. 6. Conclusion
  7. 1. Primary Sources
    2. Secondary Sources
Anna-Katharina Höpflinger Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. Why Should Spirits Haunt Cemeteries?
  2. 1. 3.1 A Top-Hat in Swains Lane
    2. 3.2 East Cemetery Turns Ghosts Mad
    3. 3.3 West Vampire Hunt
  3. 4. Haunted Reflections
  4. Bibliography
V. Images of EternityPages 253 - 254 Download chapter (PDF)
Sean Michael Ryan Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. The Victorian Ideal of a ‹Good Death›
  2. 2. Victorian Grave Types and the Hymn «Rock of Ages»
  3. 3. Grave Monument: Ottilie and Frances Reissmann (Highgate East Cemetery)
  4. 4. Concluding Chorus
  5. Bibliography
Natalie Fritz Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. An Angelic Little Girl. Or Starting an Emotional Walk through Highgate
  2. 2. Are They Feathered like Eagles? Or a Very Short Introduction to Angel Iconography
  3. 3. The Recumbent Angel. An Individualised Representation of Loss and Hope in a Public Sphere
  4. 4. Angels and Repetition. Liminal Figures between Past, Present and Future
  5. 5. Angel Representations on Tombstones. Visual Archives of Past Beliefs and Persons
  6. 6. Tell Me What Angel Decorates Your Grave and I Tell You, Who You Were. A Short Summary
  7. Bibliography
VI. Images of a Paradise GardenPages 305 - 306 Download chapter (PDF)
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. Dis-placing the Dead
  2. 2. New Places of Rest
  3. 3. A Garden for the Dead, a Garden for the Living
  4. 4. «Not just a green park»
  5. Bibliography
Ann Jeffers Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. 1. The Socio-Historical Context of Victorian Garden Cemeteries
  2. 2. Nineteenth Century Sanitation Reform and Aesthetics
  3. 1. 3.1 Rose
    2. 3.2 Ivy
    3. 3.3 Lilies
    4. 3.4 Poppies
  4. 1. 4.1 Peacock
    2. 4.2 Ouroborus and Snakes
    3. 4.3 Dove
    4. 4.4 Lion
    5. 4.5 Pelican
  5. 5. Some Reflections on the Performativity of Representations of Plants and Animals
  6. Bibliography
Alberto Saviello Download chapter (PDF)
1. 1. Introduction
2. 2. Landscape Cemeteries as Sites of Imagination
3. 3. Highgate Cemetery as Semantic Framework
4. 4. Imagined Roots: Conclusion
5. Bibliography
AuthorsPages 373 - 376 Download chapter (PDF)

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