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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
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Heterotopia and Liminality: Cemeteries as Spaces of Image Production
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Images as Socio-Religious Practices
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Image, Imagination and Imaginary: Production and Exchange of Meaning
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Coping with Death and Liminal Experiences
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31–32
I. The Broader Image
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33–52
Experiencing Highgate Cemetery as a Place Landscape, Text, Threshold
Carla Danani
Carla Danani
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1. Approaching Highgate
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2. Highgate as a Landscape
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3. Highgate Cemetery as a Text
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4. Highgate as a Threshold
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5. Place as Event
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Performing Difference in Front of Death Material, Bodily and Spatial Practice
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
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1. Walking through a Victorian Cemetery Today
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2. Materiality at Work
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3. Bodily Encounters
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4. Graves as Multi-layered Places
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5. Staging Diversity Facing a Common Condition
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The Politics of Death
Ann Jeffers
Ann Jeffers
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Death and Politics in Victorian England
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1. Introduction
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2. The Intellectual Climate
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3. The Population Explosion
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4. The Body, Ethics, Hygiene and Aesthetics
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II. Politics of Images
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93–120
Looking for Jenny & Co.
Dolores Zoé Bertschinger
Dolores Zoé Bertschinger
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The Image as Practice for a Feminist Imaginary
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1. Is Highgate a Women’s Place?
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2. Jenny von Westphalen: The Socialist Networker
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3. Ernestine L. Rose: The Freethinking Suffragette
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4. Anna Mahler: The Restless Sculptress
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5. Radclyffe Hall: The Spiritist Writer
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6. The Image as Practice for a Feminist Imaginary
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Remembering Karl Marx
Baldassare Scolari
Baldassare Scolari
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Image – Icon – Idol
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1. The Iconisation of Karl Marx
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2. The «Blind» Idolatrisation of Marx
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3. The Marx Memorial in Highgate Cemetery
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4. Mike Leigh’s Film High Hopes
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Sport as Bodily Practice of Remembrance
Alexander Darius Ornella
Alexander Darius Ornella
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Remembering Heroes, Remembering Nations
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1. Introduction
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2. Tom Sayers: The Hero and The Memorial
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3. Creating Heroes
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4. Remembering Heroes – Practicing Nationhood
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5. Remembering through Body Practice
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6. Mourning
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7. Remembering Heroes
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8. Concluding Evaluation
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III. Image Cultivation
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Public Events at a Historic-Religious Site
Marie-Therese Mäder
Marie-Therese Mäder
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Highgate Cemetery in London as a Cultural Practice
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To Remember Human Finitude in the Paratexts of the Cemetery
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Highgate Events as Practices to Resist the Erasure of Oblivion
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The Socio-Religious Practice of Guided Tours
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4. Public Events at Highgate as Socio-Religious Practice
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Highgate Cemetery at a Crossroads
Michael Leo Ulrich
Michael Leo Ulrich
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How to Take the Right Turn? A Contribution Based on the Economic Theory of Clubs
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IV. Fantastic Images
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Tales of the Dead
Niels Penke
Niels Penke
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Narrating Highgate Cemetery between Nostalgia and Heterotopia
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1. Introduction
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2. Literary Traditions: Epitaphs and Graveyard Poetry
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3. Shaping Highgate: Horror and Glory
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4. Highgate in Literature between Nostalgia & Heterotopia
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5. (Literary) Tourism and Social Reading
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6. Conclusion
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A Top-Hat, a Mad Murderess, a Vampire King
Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
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Practices, Imaginations, and the Materiality of Haunted Highgate
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1. Why Should Spirits Haunt Cemeteries?
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2. Highgate as a Place for Spirits
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3.1 A Top-Hat in Swains Lane
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3.2 East Cemetery Turns Ghosts Mad
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3.3 West Vampire Hunt
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4. Haunted Reflections
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V. Images of Eternity
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«Simply to thy Cross I cling»
Sean Michael Ryan
Sean Michael Ryan
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Hymns and the Performance of Memory in Victorian Highgate Cemetery
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1. The Victorian Ideal of a ‹Good Death›
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2. Victorian Grave Types and the Hymn «Rock of Ages»
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3. Grave Monument: Ottilie and Frances Reissmann (Highgate East Cemetery)
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4. Concluding Chorus
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Highgate Cemetery
Natalie Fritz
Natalie Fritz
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A City of Angels
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1. An Angelic Little Girl. Or Starting an Emotional Walk through Highgate
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2. Are They Feathered like Eagles? Or a Very Short Introduction to Angel Iconography
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3. The Recumbent Angel. An Individualised Representation of Loss and Hope in a Public Sphere
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4. Angels and Repetition. Liminal Figures between Past, Present and Future
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5. Angel Representations on Tombstones. Visual Archives of Past Beliefs and Persons
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6. Tell Me What Angel Decorates Your Grave and I Tell You, Who You Were. A Short Summary
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VI. Images of a Paradise Garden
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Requiescant in Pace
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa
Paola von Wyss-Giacosa
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Staging Nature as a Socio-Religious Practice in Highgate Cemetery
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1. Dis-placing the Dead
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2. New Places of Rest
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3. A Garden for the Dead, a Garden for the Living
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4. «Not just a green park»
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Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Ann Jeffers
Ann Jeffers
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Performativity of Living Images in Highgate Cemetery
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1. The Socio-Historical Context of Victorian Garden Cemeteries
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2. Nineteenth Century Sanitation Reform and Aesthetics
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3. Victorian Emblems: Flowers as Women’s Emblems
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3.1 Rose
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3.2 Ivy
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3.3 Lilies
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3.4 Poppies
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4. Victorian Emblems: Animals
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4.1 Peacock
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4.2 Ouroborus and Snakes
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4.3 Dove
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4.4 Lion
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4.5 Pelican
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5. Some Reflections on the Performativity of Representations of Plants and Animals
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Highgate Cemetery’s Landscape as a Matrix of Imagination
Alberto Saviello
Alberto Saviello
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1. Introduction
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2. Landscape Cemeteries as Sites of Imagination
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3. Highgate Cemetery as Semantic Framework
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4. Imagined Roots: Conclusion
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Highgate Cemetery , page 79 - 90
The Politics of Death
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Ann Jeffers
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doi.org/10.5771/9783845294520-79
ISBN print: 978-3-8487-5277-5
ISBN online: 978-3-8452-9452-0
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