Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 The Cultural Landscape of Evangelical Nonconformist Death; 2 Obituaries as Literature: Form and Content; 3 Evangelical Nonconformist Theology and Deathbed Piety; 4 The Claims of Heaven and Earth: Social Background and Social Mobility; 5 The Old Dissent and the New Dissent: Denominational Variations; 6 The Infinite in the Finite: the Romantic Spirit and Nonconformist Death; 7 Last Words: the Experience of Death; 8 The Good Death and a Good Life
Appendix A: A Sampling of Occupations by Denomination and Time PeriodAppendix B: Shifts in Evangelical Nonconformist Obituary Content by Category 1830รข#x80;#x93;1880; Bibliography; Index
