158 KB57 KB200420252024Gadpaille, Michelleštevilka:1letnik:21str. 211-227DOI:10.4312/elope.21.1.211-227ISSN:1581-8918COBISSID_HOST:201398787URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-MGVZBKZIenZaložba Univerze v LjubljaniELOPE (Ljubljana)angleška književnostcolonial JamaicaEnglish literaturekolonijalna JamajkaPresbyterian missionsprezbiterianski misijoniumiranjeVictorian deathbedsVictorian novelsviktorijanski romaniThe discourse of the “good death” in nineteenth-century fiction and a historical case study|What people said on their deathbeds preoccupied 19th-century Protestants. Fear of the void after death or of punishment in the afterlife made death terrifying. The process of dying, however, was ritualized to negate these terrors. Having a “good death” constituted reassurance for the dying, comfort for the family, and a lesson for the community. Such comfort was available even from fictional deathbed scenes, where sentiment and imagery softened the harsh reality. This interdisciplinary study explores the similarities between real and fictional deathbed narratives, using a sample of 19th-century novels, two historical deathbeds from Scotland, and a case study of an actual deathbed from the West Indies. The pattern of the good death – in both fiction and biography – includes specific elements such as witness, testimony, requests and advice, music, scripture, and confident hope of Heaven. Some deathbeds even became virtual stages or pulpits, with the dying person at the centreProtestanti so v 19. stoletju veliko pozornosti namenjali besedam, izrečenim na smrtni postelji. Ljudje so se bali smrti zaradi strahu pred praznino ali kaznijo v posmrtnem življenju. Strahove so poskusili pregnati z ritualizacijo postopka umiranja. “Dobra smrt” naj bi pomirila umirajočega, potolažila družino in predstavljala nauk za skupnost. Tovrstno tolažbo so ponujali celo prikazi umiranja v fikciji, kjer so kruto stvarnost omehčala čustva in podobje. Pričujoča interdisciplinarna raziskava ugotavlja podobnosti med resničnimi in fiktivnimi prikazi umiranja v romanih 19. stoletja: na primeru dveh škotskih zgodovinskih romanov ter na primeru resnične, zgodovinsko izpričane smrti v Zahodni Indiji. Vzorec dobre smrti – tako v leposlovju kot v biografiji – vključuje posebne elemente, kot so priče, pričevanje, prošnje in nasveti, glasba, sveto pismo in upanje na pot v nebesa. Nekateri opisi ljudi na smrtni postelji so se spremenili celo v navidezne odre ali prižnice, na katerih je bila v ospredju umirajoča osebaTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta