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Chapter 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Mortality for the Masses
- Chapter 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian 17
- Chapter 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature 31
- Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia 56
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Part II. The Politics of Death
- Chapter 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic 71
- Chapter 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy 91
- Chapter 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel 108
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Part III. Physical Remains
- Chapter 7. Major Andre's Exhumation 123
- Chapter 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic 136
- Chapter 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies 149
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Part IV. After Life
- Chapter 10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America 163
- Chapter 11. "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York 176
- Chapter 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement 187
- Notes 205
- Contributors 247
- Index 249
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Mortality for the Masses
- Chapter 1. The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian 17
- Chapter 2. Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature 31
- Chapter 3. A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia 56
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Part II. The Politics of Death
- Chapter 4. Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic 71
- Chapter 5. Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy 91
- Chapter 6. The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel 108
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Part III. Physical Remains
- Chapter 7. Major Andre's Exhumation 123
- Chapter 8. Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic 136
- Chapter 9. A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies 149
-
Part IV. After Life
- Chapter 10. Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America 163
- Chapter 11. "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York 176
- Chapter 12. The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement 187
- Notes 205
- Contributors 247
- Index 249