By Nigel Starck
ISBN-10: 0522852564
ISBN-13: 9780522852561
In recent times, the obituary has loved a striking resurgence in literary status and recognition with readers. As David Bowman, a exclusive Australian editor and journalist, says: 'In the English-speaking international, a newspaper of caliber hardly ever turns out entire nowadays with out a general obituary page.' This vigorous ebook by means of Dr Nigel Starck is the 1st to discover the evolution of the obituary within the English-language press. Its writer, a journalist and pupil who's one of many world's most suitable specialists at the kind of the obituary, strains its evolution via extracts drawn from newspapers and journals released considering the fact that 1625. The attribute wit, appeal, candour and cultural importance of the obituary paintings are explored and analysed with many attractive examples. Painstakingly researched in newspaper documents on 3 continents, ''Life After Death'' comprises the total texts of impressive obituaries released in Britain, the U.S. and Australia. the topics of those obits variety from the well-known to the vague, from the evil and notorious to the apparent unfortunate.
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Benjamin Harris ran this report on his front page. Here, potentially, was America’s first obituarist; from his troubled years in London, he would have been well aware of the coffee-house society’s interest in necrology. The Puritan clerics of Boston never gave him the chance to develop that potential, for they were outraged by other stories in Publick Occurrences—notably one which maintained that ‘the French king had been taking immoral liberties with the prince’s wife’. The Governor and the Council of Massachusetts intervened, banning Harris’s venture.
47 At times, however, something of significance can be learnt from this apparently intrusive application of the obituary art. When Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s consort, died in December 1861, the newspapers disclosed intimate details of his agonies and, more importantly, their cause. The Sydney Morning Herald drew on a number of British publications for its lengthy obituary three months later (Australia’s remoteness still ruled out more immediate publication). indd 41 6/30/06 1:54:29 PM 42 Life After Death The disease was typhoid fever … It is perhaps commonly thought that, as a man of middle age, well nourished … highly cared for in all material wants, the Prince might have been less than usually liable to fall victim to a low fever of this kind.
There are many such notes, propped up at the base of the east and west walls. There are miniature flags too, and flowers, badges, medals, and hands, always hands. They are the hands of the mourners and tourists, compelled by the awful power of this monument to reach out and touch the black granite, mined in India and cut in Vermont. And then there are the names: 58 209 of them. I have paused here on my way to the Library of Congress, where the early obituaries of the American colonies and the black-bordered newspaper columns lamenting Abraham Lincoln’s assassination await.
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