Death in childhood has, until well into the twentieth century, been more common than for any other age. Surprisingly, then, despite growing interest in how deat

Recent events such as the massacres in Dunblane and Arkansas, the deaths of children in terrorist attacks, civil wars and famines, children born with AIDS, and

This is the first book in any language to inquire into the emergence of childhood as a topic of significant cultural attention in Han times, as expressed in the

From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human