05198nam 2200841Ia 450 991097388400332120250807221555.09780812218237081221823X978128389891112838989189780812208061081220806410.9783/9780812208061(CKB)2550000000707692(OCoLC)859160747(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748478(SSID)ssj0001036504(PQKBManifestationID)11665363(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036504(PQKBWorkID)11042196(PQKB)10220418(SSID)ssj0000809187(PQKBManifestationID)11956422(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000809187(PQKBWorkID)10792812(PQKB)11374304(OCoLC)846189060(MdBmJHUP)muse21191(DE-B1597)449586(OCoLC)979684963(DE-B1597)9780812208061(Au-PeEL)EBL3442206(CaPaEBR)ebr10748638(CaONFJC)MIL421141(OCoLC)932312899(MiAaPQ)EBC3442206(Perlego)732069(EXLCZ)99255000000070769220020528d2003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMortal remains death in early America /edited by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20031 online resource (viii, 253 pages) illustrationsMaterial texts Jeremiah's scribesBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781322511986 1322511985 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from religion and politics to race relations and the nature of war. In this volume historians and literary scholars join forces to explore how, in a medically primitive and politically evolving environment, mortality became an issue that was inseparable from national self-definition.Attempting to make sense of their suffering and loss while imagining a future of cultural permanence and spiritual value, early Americans crafted metaphors of death in particular ways that have shaped the national mythology. As the authors show, the American fascination with murder, dismembered bodies, and scenes of death, the allure of angel sightings, the rural cemetery movement, and the enshrinement of George Washington as a saintly father, constituted a distinct sensibility. Moreover, by exploring the idea of the vanishing Indian and the brutality of slavery, the authors demonstrate how a culture of violence and death had an early effect on the American collective consciousness.Mortal Remains draws on a range of primary sources-from personal diaries and public addresses, satire and accounts of sensational crime-and makes a needed contribution to neglected aspects of cultural history. It illustrates the profound ways in which experiences with death and the imagery associated with it became enmeshed in American society, politics, and culture.DeathSocial aspectsUnited StatesFuneral rites and ceremoniesUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesSocial life and customsTo 1775United StatesSocial life and customs19th centuryDeathSocial aspectsFuneral rites and ceremoniesHistory.306.9HS 1691rvkIsenberg Nancy214604Burstein Andrew600735MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973884003321Mortal remains4411761UNINA