| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
USA Gesellschaft Totenkult Geschichte 1620-1860 Kongress Tulsa (Okla., 2001) |
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USA Gesellschaftsleben Tod (Motiv) Geschichte 1620-1860 Kongress Tulsa (Okla., 2001) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-245) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Death -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States -- History.
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Literature, Modern.
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Attitude to Death.
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Religion and Psychology.
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Death.
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Thanatology.
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Funeral Rites -- history.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Kongress
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burstein, Andrew.
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Isenberg, Nancy.
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| LC no. |
2002074221 |
| ISBN |
0812208064 (electronic bk.) |
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9780812208061 (electronic bk.) |
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