Death in America / / David E. Stannard.
Contributors: Philippe Ariès, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fernández Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Death and the Interpretation of Culture: A Bibliographic Overview
- Death and the Puritan Child
- Death in the Popular Mind of Pre-Civil War America
- Heaven Our Home: Consolation Literature in the Northern United States, 1830-1880
- The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the “Rural Cemetery” Movement
- Death in Mexican Folk Culture
- Gates Ajar: Death in Mormon Thought and Practice
- The Reversal of Death: Changes in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies
- Contributors