Introduction: “So Witty as to Speak”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Introduction: “So Witty as to Speak” 1
6. Icon and Epitaph
7. Innocents in a Worldly World: Victorian Children’s Gravemarkers 11
8. The Bigham Carvers of the Carolina Piedmont: Stone Images of an Emerging Sense of American Identity 31
9. Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest Gravemarkers 61
10. The Epitaph and Personality Revelation 87
11. Origins and Influences
12. The Upland South Folk Cemetery Complex: Some Suggestions of Origin 107
13. J. N. B. de Pouillyand French Sources of Revival Style Design in New Orleans Cemetery Architecture 137
14. Ethnicity and Regionalism
15. The Afro-American Section of Newport, Rhode Island’s Common Burying Ground 164
16. Navajo, Mormon, Zuni Graves: Navajo, Mormon, Zuni Ways 197
17. San Fernando Cemetery: Decorations of Love and Loss in a Mexican-American Community 217
18. Western Pennsylvania Cemeteries in Transition: A Model for Subregional Analysis 237
19. Business and Pleasure
20. Monumental Bronze: A Representative American Company 263
21. Strange but Genteel Pleasure Grounds: Tourist and Leisure Uses of Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemeteries 293
22. Bibliography 329
23. Contributors 341
24. Index 343