File Download
Supplementary
-
Citations:
- Appears in Collections:
Article: ‘Closer to God’: Child Death in Historical Perspective
Title | ‘Closer to God’: Child Death in Historical Perspective |
---|---|
Authors | |
Issue Date | 2015 |
Publisher | The Johns Hopkins University Press. The Journal's web site is located at https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_childhood_and_youth/ |
Citation | Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2015, v. 8 n. 3, p. 353-377 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Those working within the sub-field of the modern history of childhood have rarely taken the dead child as their starting point. However, in a secularising, post-Enlightenment world elites pursuing ‘progress’ contemporaneously, and very publicly, reinterpreted death in relation to redefinitions of childhood as evidence of the divine. Dead children featured prominently within public modern mourning practices until, late in the nineteenth century scientific explorations of child death drove societies to occlude the presence of dead children. As infant mortality rates fell perceptions of children as a dangerous, unstable presence, and a threat to the nation grew. New spaces emerged to receive and conceal dead children. New literary and visual cultures recast living children’s relationship with death. And in the early twentieth century accidental deaths in commercial space, in reformatories and within the home inspired powerful debates over the future of childhood and society. This article surveys recent literature, raises key themes and introduces the articles featured in this special issue on the relatively under-research theme of child death. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/217977 |
ISSN |
DC Field | Value | Language |
---|---|---|
dc.contributor.author | Pomfret, DM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-18T06:20:09Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-18T06:20:09Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 2015, v. 8 n. 3, p. 353-377 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1939-6724 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/217977 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Those working within the sub-field of the modern history of childhood have rarely taken the dead child as their starting point. However, in a secularising, post-Enlightenment world elites pursuing ‘progress’ contemporaneously, and very publicly, reinterpreted death in relation to redefinitions of childhood as evidence of the divine. Dead children featured prominently within public modern mourning practices until, late in the nineteenth century scientific explorations of child death drove societies to occlude the presence of dead children. As infant mortality rates fell perceptions of children as a dangerous, unstable presence, and a threat to the nation grew. New spaces emerged to receive and conceal dead children. New literary and visual cultures recast living children’s relationship with death. And in the early twentieth century accidental deaths in commercial space, in reformatories and within the home inspired powerful debates over the future of childhood and society. This article surveys recent literature, raises key themes and introduces the articles featured in this special issue on the relatively under-research theme of child death. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The Johns Hopkins University Press. The Journal's web site is located at https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_childhood_and_youth/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth | - |
dc.rights | Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Copyright © The Johns Hopkins University Press. | - |
dc.rights | Copyright © <year> The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in TITLE, Volume <#>, Issue <#>, <Month>, <Year>, pages <#-#>. | - |
dc.title | ‘Closer to God’: Child Death in Historical Perspective | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Pomfret, DM: pomfretd@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Pomfret, DM=rp01194 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1353/hcy.2015.0041 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 251008 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 8 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 3 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 353 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 377 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1939-6724 | - |