The materiality of mourning : cross-disciplinary perspectives / edited by Zahra Newby and Ruth E. Toulson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : emotions and materiality in theory and method / Ruth E. Toulson and Zahra Newby -- Dead people's clothes : materialising mourning and memory in Ancient Rome / Valerie M. Hope -- Remembering Roland Leighton : uniforms as the materials of memory in World War I / Emily Brayshaw -- Destroying objects, keeping memories / Eric Venbrux -- The Grottarossa doll and her mistress : hope and consolation in a Roman tomb / Zahra Newby -- Talking with a cold grey stone : the life and death of gravestones in contemporary Denmark / Anne Kjaesgaard -- The face of the deceased : portrait busts in Roman tombs / Helen I. Ackers -- Enduring grief : images of mourning from the ancient classical world to eighteenth-century Britain / Kate A. Beats -- The'worth' of grief and the'value' of bodies : managing the civilian corpse in Second World War Britain / Lucy Noakes -- Fragments of bone and chips of stone : materiality and mourning in a Chinese society / Ruth E. Toulson -- Sacred rituals of the security state : reclaiming bodies and making relics from Ground Zero / Charlotte Heath-Kelly -- Why materiality in mourning matters / Michael Brennan -- The death turn : interdisciplinarity, mourning and material culture / Douglas J. Davies.