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Death in America / David E. Stannard.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©1975Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812276954
  • 9781512818857
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Death and the Interpretation of Culture: A Bibliographic Overview -- Death and the Puritan Child -- Death in the Popular Mind of Pre-Civil War America -- Heaven Our Home: Consolation Literature in the Northern United States, 1830-1880 -- The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the “Rural Cemetery” Movement -- Death in Mexican Folk Culture -- Gates Ajar: Death in Mormon Thought and Practice -- The Reversal of Death: Changes in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies -- Contributors
Summary: Contributors: Philippe Ariès, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fernández Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512818857

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Death and the Interpretation of Culture: A Bibliographic Overview -- Death and the Puritan Child -- Death in the Popular Mind of Pre-Civil War America -- Heaven Our Home: Consolation Literature in the Northern United States, 1830-1880 -- The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the “Rural Cemetery” Movement -- Death in Mexican Folk Culture -- Gates Ajar: Death in Mormon Thought and Practice -- The Reversal of Death: Changes in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies -- Contributors

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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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