Death and Garden Narratives in Literature, Art, and Film

Sabine Planka works as a subject librarian for the humanities at the university library of FernUniversity Hagen in Germany.Feryal Cubukcu is head of the English language education department at Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey.

• Chapter 1: Death in an English Garden: Agential Realism and the Nature of Arthur Machen’s “Panic Terror”Adrian TaitChapter 2: The Death of the Profound Natural Aesthetics in the Garden in Ernest Hemingway’s “The End of Something”Zennure KösemanChapter 3: The Season before Death: Exile and Memory in The Garden of the Finzi-ContinisPaul VenzoChapter 4: Death and Psychogeography in Agatha Christie’s Detective StoriesFeryal CubukcuChapter 5: My Home is my Castle, my Garden your Grave: The Private Garden as Graveyard in Selected Crime NovelsSabine PlankaChapter 6: Gardens of the Undead: Graveyards and Tombs in the Harry Potter SeriesMiriam StriederChapter 7: Garden or Graveyard? “The Contemplation of Death” in Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little SpartaEkaterina KochetkovaChapter 8: The Dialectic of Life and Death in the ‘Garden Verses’ of the Karoo Desert National Botanical GardenPhilip van der MerweChapter 9: Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead at the Bückeberg (1933 – 1937)

Foraging in both literary and real gardens, this eclectic collection of essays shows death animating gardens of all kinds. Ranging from Hemingway to Bauman, from Marvel superheroes to crime novel murder scenes and underwater octopus gardens,Death and Garden Narratives makes a landmark contribution to death studies.