The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature

Rituals, memorials, and epitaphs. Death and the dead in verse funerary epigrams of Ancient Greece / Arianna Gullo -- Fictional will / Helen Swift -- Monumentalism, death, and genre in Shakespeare / John Tangney -- Death and gothic romanticism : dilating in/upon the graveyard, meditating among the tombs / Carol Margaret Davison -- Death, literature, and the Victorian era / Jolene Zigarovich -- The aura of the phonographic relic : hearing the voices of the dead / Angela Frattarola -- Anecdotal death : Samuel Johnson's Lives of the English poets / Laura Davies -- Biography : life after death / Ira Nade -- Living with death : writing, mourning, and consolation. "An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing" : philosophy, literature, and death in Peter Weiss' Abschied von den Eltern / Christopher Hamilton -- Paradox, death, and the divine / Jamie Lin -- Inner seeing and death anxiety in Aidan Higgins's Blind Man's Bluff and other life writing / Lara O'Muirithe -- .