Madeleine Scherer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Rachel Falconer is Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

• Introduction: The Long Descent into the Past Madeleine Scherer Chapter 1: The Even longer Descent: Notes on Genesis and Development of Ancient Egyptian Underworld Conceptions and their Interplay with Funerary PracticeJakob Schneider Chapter 2: Remembering in the Real World: Katabatic and Natural DeathscapesJoel Gordon Chapter 3: The Pestis Within: Concerns of the Underworld in Lucretius and VergilAbigail Buglass Chapter 4: Memories of Rome’s Underworld in Lucan’s Civil War NarrativeEleonora Tola Chapter 5: The Open Door to Elysium in Lucian’s True HistoryA. Everett Beek Chapter 6: ‘One of Marlow's inconclusive experiences’: The Katabatic Wisdom Tradition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of DarknessKaren Borg Cardona Chapter 7: ‘By My Voice I Shall Be Known’: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the Willing Voices of the DeadYi-Chuang E. Lin Chapter 8: Katabasis: Ancient and Modern Desires for Heroic MemoryFrances Foster Chapter 9: An Australian-made hell’: Postcolonial Katabasis in Alexis Wright’s The Swan BookArnaud Barras Chapter 10: Memory and Forgetfulness in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian UnderworldsRachel Falconer Chapter 11: ‘all must descend to where the stories are kept’: Textual Remembrance and Katabasis in Margaret Atwood's The PenelopiadMadeleine Scherer List of ContributorsIndex

Madeleine Scherer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Rachel Falconer is Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

• Introduction: The Long Descent into the Past Madeleine Scherer Chapter 1: The Even longer Descent: Notes on Genesis and Development of Ancient Egyptian Underworld Conceptions and their Interplay with Funerary PracticeJakob Schneider Chapter 2: Remembering in the Real World: Katabatic and Natural DeathscapesJoel Gordon Chapter 3: The Pestis Within: Concerns of the Underworld in Lucretius and VergilAbigail Buglass Chapter 4: Memories of Rome’s Underworld in Lucan’s Civil War NarrativeEleonora Tola Chapter 5: The Open Door to Elysium in Lucian’s True HistoryA. Everett Beek Chapter 6: ‘One of Marlow's inconclusive experiences’: The Katabatic Wisdom Tradition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of DarknessKaren Borg Cardona Chapter 7: ‘By My Voice I Shall Be Known’: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the Willing Voices of the DeadYi-Chuang E. Lin Chapter 8: Katabasis: Ancient and Modern Desires for Heroic MemoryFrances Foster Chapter 9: An Australian-made hell’: Postcolonial Katabasis in Alexis Wright’s The Swan BookArnaud Barras Chapter 10: Memory and Forgetfulness in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian UnderworldsRachel Falconer Chapter 11: ‘all must descend to where the stories are kept’: Textual Remembrance and Katabasis in Margaret Atwood's The PenelopiadMadeleine Scherer List of ContributorsIndex

Madeleine Scherer is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Rachel Falconer is Professor and Chair of Modern English Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

• Introduction: The Long Descent into the Past Madeleine Scherer Chapter 1: The Even longer Descent: Notes on Genesis and Development of Ancient Egyptian Underworld Conceptions and their Interplay with Funerary PracticeJakob Schneider Chapter 2: Remembering in the Real World: Katabatic and Natural DeathscapesJoel Gordon Chapter 3: The Pestis Within: Concerns of the Underworld in Lucretius and VergilAbigail Buglass Chapter 4: Memories of Rome’s Underworld in Lucan’s Civil War NarrativeEleonora Tola Chapter 5: The Open Door to Elysium in Lucian’s True HistoryA. Everett Beek Chapter 6: ‘One of Marlow's inconclusive experiences’: The Katabatic Wisdom Tradition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of DarknessKaren Borg Cardona Chapter 7: ‘By My Voice I Shall Be Known’: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the Willing Voices of the DeadYi-Chuang E. Lin Chapter 8: Katabasis: Ancient and Modern Desires for Heroic MemoryFrances Foster Chapter 9: An Australian-made hell’: Postcolonial Katabasis in Alexis Wright’s The Swan BookArnaud Barras Chapter 10: Memory and Forgetfulness in Seamus Heaney’s Virgilian UnderworldsRachel Falconer Chapter 11: ‘all must descend to where the stories are kept’: Textual Remembrance and Katabasis in Margaret Atwood's The PenelopiadMadeleine Scherer List of ContributorsIndex