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death in early America

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English
Pages
253

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Cover of: Mortal Remains
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
2012, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
Cover of: Mortal Remains
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
2012, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
Cover of: Mortal remains
Mortal remains: death in early America
2003, University of Pennsylvania Press
in English
Cover of: Mortal Remains
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
October 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
November 2002, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Table of 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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-245) and index

Published in
Philadelphia

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ1073.5.U6 M67 2003, HQ1073.5.U6M67 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 253 p. :
Number of pages
253

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17068706M
Internet Archive
mortalremainsdea0000unse
ISBN 10
0812236785, 081221823X
LCCN
2002074221
OCLC/WorldCat
49901887
Library Thing
5388424
Goodreads
797786

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