Mortal Remains

Abstract

List of Illustrations I. MORTALITY FOR THE MASSES 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian -Laura M. Stevens 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature -Daniel A. Cohen 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston nd Philadelphia -Robert V. Wells II. THE POLITICS OF DEATH 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic -Nancy Isenberg 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy -Andrew Burstein 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel -Julia Stern III. PHYSICAL REMAINS 7. Major Andre's Exhumation -Michael Meranze 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic -Matthew Dennis 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies -Douglas R. Egerton IV. AFTER LIFE 10. Elizabeth Reis, Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America -Douglas R. Egerton 11. In the Midst of Life we are in Death: Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York -Nicholas Marshall 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement -Thomas G. Connors Notes List of Contributors Index