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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Burstein, Andrew, Isenberg, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 Andre'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.