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Tables of Contents for Mortal Remains
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction
1
16
Part I. Mortality for the Masses
The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian
17
14
Laura M. Stevens
Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature
31
25
Daniel A. Cohen
A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia
56
15
Robert V. Wells
Part II. The Politics of Death
Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic
71
20
Nancy Isenberg
Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy
91
17
Andrew Burstein
The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel
108
15
Julia Stern
Part III. Physical Remains
Major Andre's Exhumation
123
13
Michael Meranze
Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic
136
13
Matthew Dennis
A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies
149
14
Douglas R. Egerton
Part IV. After Life
Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America
163
13
Elizabeth Reis
``In the Midst of Life we are in Death'': Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York
176
11
Nicholas Marshall
The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement
187
18
Thomas G. Connors
Notes
205
42
List of Contributors
247
2
Index
249