Mortal Remains : Death in Early America [1 ed.] 9780812208061, 9780812218237

Mortal Remains: Death in Early America 9780812208061

"These 12 short, highly focused essays analyze how experiences with death and the imagery associated with it influe

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All That Remains: A Life in Death 9781473543430, 1473543436

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in

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All That Remains: A Life in Death 9781473543430, 9780857524928, 1473543436

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in

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Death in America 0812276957, 0812201840

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Mortal No: Death and the Modern Imagination 9781400878185

Using examples from modem writers the author examines the impact of death using the concepts of grace, violence and self

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The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains 9781400874514

The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scaven

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The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883 9780300143690

When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuri

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Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty 9780823282326

How does literature contest capital punishment? The central question of this book, taken over from Derrida’s seminar The

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Milton in Early America 9781400878178

Searching through journals, almanacs, sermons, tracts, orations, and volumes of verse, Professor Sensabaugh traces Milto

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Women in Early America 9781479876419

Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era

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