Format:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
ISBN:
9780812218237
Content:
"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influenced US culture before 1860."--Choice.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I. MORTALITY FOR THE MASSES -- 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian -- 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature -- 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia -- PART II. THE POLITICS OF DEATH -- 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic -- 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy -- 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel -- PART III. PHYSICAL REMAINS -- 7. Major André's Exhumation -- 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic -- 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies -- PART IV. AFTER LIFE -- 10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America -- 11. "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York -- 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- XYZ.
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Description based upon print version of record
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I. MORTALITY FOR THE MASSES""; ""1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian""; ""2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature""; ""3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia""; ""PART II. THE POLITICS OF DEATH""; ""4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic""; ""5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy""; ""6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel""
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""PART III. PHYSICAL REMAINS""""7. Major André's Exhumation""; ""8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic""; ""9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies""; ""PART IV. AFTER LIFE""; ""10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America""; ""11. ""In the Midst of Life we are in Death"": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York""; ""12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement""; ""Notes""; ""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""
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""E""""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""XYZ""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812208061
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780812218237
Additional Edition:
Print version Mortal Remains : Death in Early America
Language:
English
Keywords:
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