Speaking with the Dead in Early America / / Erik R. Seeman.
In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 25 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction. Speaking with the Dead
- Chapter 1. The Transatlantic Science of the Dead
- Chapter 2. Elegy in Puritan New England
- Chapter 3. Talking Gravestones and Visions of Heaven
- Chapter 4. Voices of the Dead in the American Enlightenment
- Chapter 5. Eighteenth-Century Imaginative Literature
- Chapter 6. Revelations and New Denominations
- Chapter 7. Religious Objects, Sacred Space, and the Cult of the Dead
- Chapter 8. Ghosts, Guardian Angels, and Departed Spirits
- Conclusion. Continuing Relationships
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments