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| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Mortality for the Masses | |
| 1 | The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian | 17 |
| 2 | Blood Will Out: Sensationalism, Horror, and the Roots of American Crime Literature | 31 |
| 3 | A Tale of Two Cities: Epidemics and the Rituals of Death in Eighteenth-Century Boston and Philadelphia | 56 |
| Pt. II | The Politics of Death | |
| 4 | Death and Satire: Dismembering the Body Politic | 71 |
| 5 | Immortalizing the Founding Fathers: The Excesses of Public Eulogy | 91 |
| 6 | The Politics of Tears: Death in the Early American Novel | 108 |
| Pt. III | Physical Remains | |
| 7 | Major Andre's Exhumation | 123 |
| 8 | Patriotic Remains: Bones of Contention in the Early Republic | 136 |
| 9 | A Peculiar Mark of Infamy: Dismemberment, Burial, and Rebelliousness in Slave Societies | 149 |
| Pt. IV | After Life | |
| 10 | Immortal Messengers: Angels, Gender, and Power in Early America | 163 |
| 11 | "In the Midst of Life we are in Death": Affliction and Religion in Antebellum New York | 176 |
| 12 | The Romantic Landscape: Washington Irving, Sleepy Hollow, and the Rural Cemetery Movement | 187 |
| Notes | 205 | |
| List of Contributors | 247 | |
| Index | 249 |
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