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Social life and customs, Death, Funeral rites and ceremonies, History, Death, social aspects, United states, social life and customs, to 1775, Social aspects, Thanatology, Attitude to Death, Funeral Rites, Modern Literature, Religion and PsychologyPlaces
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Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
2012, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
2012, University of Pennsylvania Press
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2003, University of Pennsylvania Press
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Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
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Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
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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
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-245) and index
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