LEADER 05445nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910813313803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-1823-X 010 $a1-283-89891-8 010 $a0-8122-0806-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208061 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707692 035 $a(OCoLC)859160747 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748478 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036504 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11665363 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036504 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11042196 035 $a(PQKB)10220418 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000809187 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11956422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000809187 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10792812 035 $a(PQKB)11374304 035 $a(OCoLC)846189060 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21191 035 $a(DE-B1597)449586 035 $a(OCoLC)979684963 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208061 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442206 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748638 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421141 035 $a(OCoLC)932312899 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442206 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707692 100 $a20020528d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMortal remains $edeath in early America /$fedited by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial texts Jeremiah's scribes 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51198-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart I. Mortality for the Masses -- $tChapter 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian / $rStevens, Laura M. -- $tChapter 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature / $rCohen, Daniel A. -- $tChapter 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia / $rWells, Robert V. -- $tPart II. The Politics of Death -- $tChapter 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic / $rIsenberg, Nancy -- $tChapter 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy / $rBurstein, Andrew -- $tChapter 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel / $rStern, Julia -- $tPart III. Physical Remains -- $tChapter 7. Major Andre's Exhumation / $rMeranze, Michael -- $tChapter 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic / $rDennis, Matthew -- $tChapter 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies / $rEgerton, Douglas R. -- $tPart IV. After Life -- $tChapter 10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America / $rReis, Elizabeth -- $tChapter 11. "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York / $rMarshall, Nicholas -- $tChapter 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement / $rConnors, Thomas G. -- $tNotes -- $tContributors -- $tIndex 330 $aMortal 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. 606 $aDeath$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$yTo 1775 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 615 0$aDeath$xSocial aspects 615 0$aFuneral rites and ceremonies$xHistory. 676 $a306.9 686 $aHS 1691$2rvk 701 $aIsenberg$b Nancy$0214604 701 $aBurstein$b Andrew$0600735 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813313803321 996 $aMortal remains$93919018 997 $aUNINA