UID:
edocfu_9958352418902883
Format:
1 online resource (264 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780812208061
Content:
"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influenced US culture before 1860."—Choice.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian /
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Chapter 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature /
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Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia /
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Chapter 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic /
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Chapter 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy /
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Chapter 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel /
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Chapter 7. Major Andre's Exhumation /
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Chapter 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic /
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Chapter 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies /
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Chapter 10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America /
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Chapter 11. "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York /
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Chapter 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement /
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Notes --
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Contributors --
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Index.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812208061
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208061
