| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Material texts Jeremiah's scribes |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influenced US culture before 1860"--Choice |
| Analysis |
USA Gesellschaftsleben Tod (Motiv) Geschichte 1620-1860 Kongress Tulsa (Okla., 2001) |
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USA Gesellschaft Totenkult Geschichte 1620-1860 Kongress Tulsa (Okla., 2001) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-245) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
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Death -- Social aspects -- United States
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States -- History
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Death.
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Psychology and religion.
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Thanatology.
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Attitude to Death
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Death
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Funeral Rites -- history
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Literature, Modern
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Religion and Psychology
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Thanatology
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deaths.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Death -- Social aspects.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies.
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Manners and customs.
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Gesellschaft
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Gesellschaftsleben
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Tod Motiv
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Totenkult
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Dood.
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Dodenbezorging.
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Ceremoniën.
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Riten.
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Sociale aspecten.
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Tod -- Gesellschaft -- USA -- Geschichte Neuzeit -- Kongressbericht.
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Bestattungsbrauch -- USA -- Geschichte Neuzeit -- Kongressbericht.
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Tod -- Gesellschaftsleben -- USA -- Geschichte -- 1620-1860 -- Kongress (Tulsa, 2001)
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United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140528
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140534
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United States |
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United States.
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USA -- Tod -- Gesellschaftsleben -- Geschichte -- 1620-1860 -- Kongress (Tulsa, 2001)
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Tulsa <Okla., 2001>
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USA.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Isenberg, Nancy
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Burstein, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9780812208061 |
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0812208064 |
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1283898918 |
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9781283898911 |
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