num_pages: 214
description: Scholarly research generally recognizes two major movements concerning death in 19th-century America. One was the alienation of death and dead from the affairs and consciousness of the living; the other was a sentimentalization of death and a dramatic expansion of the role of death in American life. Steiner (history and social science, Northwest Missouri State U.) explores the second, filling some gaps in the research by suggesting plausible connections between disparate categories of artistic and material culture that map the confluence of democratic social thought and death in some of its most peculiar expressions. The text is double spaced. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: A Study of the Intellectual and Material Culture of Death in Nineteenth-Century America
titlecomplete: A Study of the Intellectual and Material Culture of Death in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in American History)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr