Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?

Chapter 1. Introduction; Shane McCorristine.- Chapter 2. Being Dead in Shakespearean Tragedy; Mary Ann Lund.- Chapter 3 .  'A Candidate for Immortality': Martyrdom, Memory, and the Marquis of Montrose;  Rachel Bennett.- Chapter 4. Overcoming Death: Conserving the Body in Nineteenth-Century Belgium;  Veronique Deblon and Kaat Wils.- Chapter 5. Premature Burial and the Undertakers; Brian Parsons.- Chapter 6. The Death of Nazism? Investigating Hitler's Remains and Survival Rumours in Post-War Germany; Caroline Sharples.-  Chapter 7. Death's Impossible Date; Douglas J. Davies.- Chapter 8. The Legal Definition of Death and the Right to Life; Elizabeth Wicks.- Chapter 9. The Last Moment;  Jonathan Rée.- Chapter 10. Afterword; Thomas W. Laqueur.- Index