Death and dying: old themes and new directions.

Abstract

Jonathan Dollimore, Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture, London, Allen Lane, 1998; pp. xxxii + 384; ISBN 0-713-99125-9 Pat Jalland, Death in the Victorian Family, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996; pp. xii + 464; ISBN 0-19-820188-5 Jessica Mitford, The American Way of Death Revisited, London, Virago, 1998; pp. xix + 212; ISBN 1-86049-588-5 Christine Quigley, Modern Mummies: The Preservation of the Human Body in the Twentieth Century, North Carolina and London, McFarland & Company, 1998; pp. vii + 263; ISBN 0-7864-0492-2