Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Introduction. Speaking with the Dead 1
5. Chapter 1. The Transatlantic Science of the Dead 11
6. Chapter 2. Elegy in Puritan New England 42
7. Chapter 3. Talking Gravestones and Visions of Heaven 73
8. Chapter 4. Voices of the Dead in the American Enlightenment 104
9. Chapter 5. Eighteenth-Century Imaginative Literature 130
10. Chapter 6. Revelations and New Denominations 159
11. Chapter 7. Religious Objects, Sacred Space, and the Cult of the Dead 189
12. Chapter 8. Ghosts, Guardian Angels, and Departed Spirits 229
13. Conclusion. Continuing Relationships 263
14. Notes 273
15. Index 321
16. Acknowledgments 327