Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Note on Translations xiii
6. Introduction ‘The Graves, All Gaping Wide, Every One Lets Forth His Sprite’ 1
7. 1 The Corpse in Christianity: The Dead, Mostly Dead and Very Special Dead 19
8. 2 The Religious Revenant 36
9. 3 The Corpse as Admonition, Art and Bogeyman 64
10. 4 The Reformed Revenant 92
11. 5 The Dead Rise – in Literature 119
12. Conclusion 163
13. Envoi: In the Time of Plague 167
14. Bibliography 169
15. Index 185