Screen LibraryMortal 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.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2003] ©2003 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812208061 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812208061.jpg |
| Summary: |
"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influenced US culture before 1860." Choice. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 20 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812208061 |
| Index Number: | HQ1073 |
| CLC: | D771.289 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian / Chapter 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature / Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia / Chapter 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic / Chapter 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy / Chapter 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel / Chapter 7. Major Andre's Exhumation / Chapter 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic / Chapter 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies / Chapter 10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America / Chapter 11. "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York / Chapter 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement / Notes -- Contributors -- Index. |