Death in America Anniversary Collection Hardcover 0812276957 9780812276954 Stannard, David E.

• Format: Hardcover
• Author: Stannard, David E.
• ISBN10: 0812276957
• ISBN13: 9780812276954

The subject of death is treated as an aspect of cultural history, which includes the ideas about God, sin, death, and damnation imparted to children in Puritan New England; nineteenth-century Americas grim acceptance of, if not relish for, death; consolation literature in the nineteenth century; the rural cemetery movement; and death in Mormon and Mexican societies.

Contributors: Philippe Aris, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fernndez Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard.