Mortal remains : death in early America / edited by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2003], ©2003.

viii, 253 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Christian origins of the vanishing Indian / Laura M. Stevens -- Blood will out: sensationalism, horror, and the roots of American crime literature / Daniel A. Cohen -- Tale of two cities: epidemics and rituals of death in eighteenth-century Boston and Philadelphia / Robert V. Wells -- Death and satire: dismembering the body politic / Nancy Isenberg -- Immortalizing the founding fathers: the excesses of public eulogy / Andrew Burstein -- Politics of tears: death in the early American novel / Julia Stern -- Major André's exhumation / Michael Meranze -- Patriotic remains: bones of contention in the early Republic / Matthew Dennis -- Peculiar mark of infamy: dismemberment, burial, and rebelliousness in slave societies / Douglas R. Egerton -- Immortal messengers: angels, gender, and power in early America / Elizabeth Reis -- "In the midst of life we are in death": affliction and religion in antebellum New York / Nicholas Marshall -- Romantic landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the rural cemetery movement / Thomas G. Connors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-245) and index.