Contents

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