Mortal remains : death in early America /
"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influenced US culture before 1860"--Choice
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2003.
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Colección: | Material texts Jeremiah's scribes
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Christian origins of the vanishing Indian / Laura M. Stevens
- Blood will out: sensationalism, horror, and the roots of American crime literature / Daniel A. Cohen
- A tale of two cities: epidemics and rituals of death in eighteenth-century Boston and Philadelphia / Robert V. Wells
- Death and satire: dismembering the body politic / Nancy Isenberg
- Immortalizing the founding fathers: the excesses of public eulogy / Andrew Burstein
- The politics of tears: death in the early American novel / Julia Stern
- Major André's exhumation / Michael Meranze
- Patriotic remains: bones of contention in the early Republic / Matthew Dennis
- A peculiar mark of infamy: dismemberment, burial, and rebelliousness in slave societies / Douglas R. Egerton
- Immortal messengers: angels, gender, and power in early America / Elizabeth Reis
- "In the midst of life we are in death": affliction and religion in antebellum New York / Nicholas Marshall
- The romantic landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the rural cemetery movement / Thomas G. Connors.