Jonathan’s chapter exploring the sensory aesthetics of death in the twentieth century is now available from Bloomsbury.

Volume 6: A Cultural History of Death in the Modern Age
Edited by Douglas J. Davies, Durham University, UK

1. Dead and Dying Bodies, Douglas J. Davies, (Durham University, UK)
2. The Sensory Aesthetics of Death, Jonathan Clinch, (Royal Academy of Music, UK)
3. Emotions, Mortality and Vitality, Sibylle Erle, (University of Lincoln, UK)
4. Death’s Ritual-Symbolic Performance, Brenda Mathijssen (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) and Claudia Venhorst (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
5. Sites, Power and Politics of Death, Adrian Gregory, (Oxford University, UK)
6. Gender, Age and Identity, Panagiotis Pentaris, (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) and Mattia Petricola, (University of L’Aquila, Italy)
7. Explaining Death: Belief, Law and Ethics, Henry Novello, (Flinders University, Australia)
8. The Undead and Eternal, Douglas J. Davies, (Durham University, UK)

Bloomsbury website link