MARC Record from Miami University of Ohio

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245 00 $aMortal remains :$bdeath in early America /$cedited by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$cc2003
300 $aviii, 253 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm
505 0 $aThe 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
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-245) and index
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651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y19th century
700 1 $aIsenberg, Nancy
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