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Mortal Remains
Death in Early America
Nancy Isenberg
Andrew Burstein
Softbound
253 pages with complete index
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: November 2002
Mortal Remains introduces new methods of analyzing death and its crucial meanings over a 240-year period, from 1620 to 1860, untangling its influence on other forms of cultural expression, from religion and politics to race relations and the nature of war. In this volume historians and literary scholars join forces to explore how, in a medically primitive and politically evolving environment, mortality became an issue that was inseparable from national self-definition.
Mortal Remains draws on a range of primary sources from personal diaries and public addresses, satire and accounts of sensational crime—and makes a needed contribution to neglected aspects of cultural history. It illustrates the profound ways in which experiences with death and the imagery associated with it became enmeshed in American society, politics, and culture.
The book has been gently read, the pages are clean and bright with light wear to it's cover.
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