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Image Practices at Highgate Past and Present
Marie-Therese Mäder, Alberto Saviello, Baldassare Scolari
Marie-Therese Mäder, Alberto Saviello, Baldassare Scolari
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Introduction
Heterotopia and Liminality: Cemeteries as Spaces of Image Production
Images as Socio-Religious Practices
Image, Imagination and Imaginary: Production and Exchange of Meaning
Coping with Death and Liminal Experiences
Bibliography
31–32
I. The Broader Image
31–32
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33–52
Experiencing Highgate Cemetery as a Place Landscape, Text, Threshold
Carla Danani
Carla Danani
33–52
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1. Approaching Highgate
2. Highgate as a Landscape
3. Highgate Cemetery as a Text
4. Highgate as a Threshold
5. Place as Event
Bibliography
53–78
Performing Difference in Front of Death Material, Bodily and Spatial Practice
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
53–78
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1. Walking through a Victorian Cemetery Today
2. Materiality at Work
3. Bodily Encounters
4. Graves as Multi-layered Places
5. Staging Diversity Facing a Common Condition
Bibliography
79–90
The Politics of Death
Ann Jeffers
Ann Jeffers
79–90
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Death and Politics in Victorian England
1. Introduction
2. The Intellectual Climate
3. The Population Explosion
4. The Body, Ethics, Hygiene and Aesthetics
Bibliography
91–92
II. Politics of Images
91–92
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93–120
Looking for Jenny & Co.
Dolores Zoé Bertschinger
Dolores Zoé Bertschinger
93–120
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The Image as Practice for a Feminist Imaginary
1. Is Highgate a Women’s Place?
2. Jenny von Westphalen: The Socialist Networker
3. Ernestine L. Rose: The Freethinking Suffragette
4. Anna Mahler: The Restless Sculptress
5. Radclyffe Hall: The Spiritist Writer
6. The Image as Practice for a Feminist Imaginary
Bibliography
121–148
Remembering Karl Marx
Baldassare Scolari
Baldassare Scolari
121–148
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Image – Icon – Idol
1. The Iconisation of Karl Marx
2. The «Blind» Idolatrisation of Marx
3. The Marx Memorial in Highgate Cemetery
4. Mike Leigh’s Film High Hopes
Bibliography
149–172
Sport as Bodily Practice of Remembrance
Alexander Darius Ornella
Alexander Darius Ornella
149–172
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Remembering Heroes, Remembering Nations
1. Introduction
2. Tom Sayers: The Hero and The Memorial
3. Creating Heroes
4. Remembering Heroes – Practicing Nationhood
5. Remembering through Body Practice
6. Mourning
7. Remembering Heroes
8. Concluding Evaluation
Bibliography
173–174
III. Image Cultivation
173–174
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175–196
Public Events at a Historic-Religious Site
Marie-Therese Mäder
Marie-Therese Mäder
175–196
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Highgate Cemetery in London as a Cultural Practice
To Remember Human Finitude in the Paratexts of the Cemetery
Highgate Events as Practices to Resist the Erasure of Oblivion
The Socio-Religious Practice of Guided Tours
4. Public Events at Highgate as Socio-Religious Practice
Bibliography
197–214
Highgate Cemetery at a Crossroads
Michael Leo Ulrich
Michael Leo Ulrich
197–214
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How to Take the Right Turn? A Contribution Based on the Economic Theory of Clubs
Bibliography
215–216
IV. Fantastic Images
215–216
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217–234
Tales of the Dead
Niels Penke
Niels Penke
217–234
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Narrating Highgate Cemetery between Nostalgia and Heterotopia
1. Introduction
2. Literary Traditions: Epitaphs and Graveyard Poetry
3. Shaping Highgate: Horror and Glory
4. Highgate in Literature between Nostalgia & Heterotopia
5. (Literary) Tourism and Social Reading
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
235–252
A Top-Hat, a Mad Murderess, a Vampire King
Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
235–252
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Practices, Imaginations, and the Materiality of Haunted Highgate
1. Why Should Spirits Haunt Cemeteries?
2. Highgate as a Place for Spirits
3.1 A Top-Hat in Swains Lane
3.2 East Cemetery Turns Ghosts Mad
3.3 West Vampire Hunt
4. Haunted Reflections
Bibliography
253–254
V. Images of Eternity
253–254
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255–272
«Simply to thy Cross I cling»
Sean Michael Ryan
Sean Michael Ryan
255–272
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Hymns and the Performance of Memory in Victorian Highgate Cemetery
1. The Victorian Ideal of a ‹Good Death›
2. Victorian Grave Types and the Hymn «Rock of Ages»
3. Grave Monument: Ottilie and Frances Reissmann (Highgate East Cemetery)
4. Concluding Chorus
Bibliography
273–304
Highgate Cemetery
Natalie Fritz
Natalie Fritz
273–304
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A City of Angels
1. An Angelic Little Girl. Or Starting an Emotional Walk through Highgate
2. Are They Feathered like Eagles? Or a Very Short Introduction to Angel Iconography
3. The Recumbent Angel. An Individualised Representation of Loss and Hope in a Public Sphere
4. Angels and Repetition. Liminal Figures between Past, Present and Future
5. Angel Representations on Tombstones. Visual Archives of Past Beliefs and Persons
6. Tell Me What Angel Decorates Your Grave and I Tell You, Who You Were. A Short Summary
Bibliography
305–306
VI. Images of a Paradise Garden
305–306
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307–328
Requiescant in Pace
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa
307–328
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Staging Nature as a Socio-Religious Practice in Highgate Cemetery
1. Dis-placing the Dead
2. New Places of Rest
3. A Garden for the Dead, a Garden for the Living
4. «Not just a green park»
Bibliography
329–348
Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Ann Jeffers
Ann Jeffers
329–348
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Performativity of Living Images in Highgate Cemetery
1. The Socio-Historical Context of Victorian Garden Cemeteries
2. Nineteenth Century Sanitation Reform and Aesthetics
3. Victorian Emblems: Flowers as Women’s Emblems
3.1 Rose
3.2 Ivy
3.3 Lilies
3.4 Poppies
4. Victorian Emblems: Animals
4.1 Peacock
4.2 Ouroborus and Snakes
4.3 Dove
4.4 Lion
4.5 Pelican
5. Some Reflections on the Performativity of Representations of Plants and Animals
Bibliography
349–372
Highgate Cemetery’s Landscape as a Matrix of Imagination
Alberto Saviello
Alberto Saviello
349–372
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1. Introduction
2. Landscape Cemeteries as Sites of Imagination
3. Highgate Cemetery as Semantic Framework
4. Imagined Roots: Conclusion
Bibliography
373–376
Authors
373–376
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Highgate Cemetery’s Landscape as a Matrix of Imagination
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Alberto Saviello
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ISBN print: 978-3-8487-5277-5
ISBN online: 978-3-8452-9452-0
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