Back from the Underworld
Marina Warner: The Liveliness of the Dead, 17 August 2017
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
by Thomas Laqueur.
Princeton, 711 pp., £27.95, October 2015,978 0 691 15778 8 Show More
by Thomas Laqueur.
Princeton, 711 pp., £27.95, October 2015,
“... are always in civilian clothes when I dream of you & and I have never seen you in those dear … I hope that will come true.’ When he was killed, in March 1917, she began the long struggle to find the whereabouts of his body. Though bits of news raised her hopes, he was declared missing along with thousands of others in the Battle of the Somme. She asked to ... ”