Mortal remains
Subtitle: death in early America
By: edited by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
Contributors: Isenberg, Nancy; Burstein, Andrew
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Death -- Social aspects -- United States; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States -- History; United States -- Social life and customs -- To 1775; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-245) and index
Table of contents: title: The Christian origins of the vanishing Indian / Laura M. Stevens; title: Blood will out: sensationalism, horror, and the roots of American crime literature / Daniel A. Cohen; title: A tale of two cities: epidemics and rituals of death in eighteenth-century Boston and Philadelphia / Robert V. Wells; title: Death and satire: dismembering the body politic / Nancy Isenberg; title: Immortalizing the founding fathers: the excesses of public eulogy / Andrew Burstein; title: The politics of tears: death in the early American novel / Julia Stern; title: Major André's exhumation / Michael Meranze; title: Patriotic remains: bones of contention in the early Republic / Matthew Dennis; title: A peculiar mark of infamy: dismemberment, burial, and rebelliousness in slave societies / Douglas R. Egerton; title: Immortal messengers: angels, gender, and power in early America / Elizabeth Reis; title: "In the midst of life we are in death": affliction and religion in antebellum New York / Nicholas Marshall; title: The romantic landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the rural cemetery movement / Thomas G. Connors