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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300078684
ISBN-139780300078688
eBay Product ID (ePID)519030
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
Publication NameSacred Remains : American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
SubjectDeath & Dying, Death, Grief, Bereavement, United States / 19th Century, United States / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorGary Laderman
Subject AreaFamily & Relationships, Social Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN96-010373
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.9/0973
SynopsisThis fascinating book explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the nineteenth century. Gary Laderman offers insights into the construction of an "American way of death", illuminating the central role of the Civil War and tracing the birth of the funeral industry in the decades following the war., When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contrast, after Abraham Lincoln's death in 1865, his body was transported around the North and displayed for more than two weeks, for by then corpses could be autopsied, drained of their blood, and beautified for the benefit of mourners. This absorbing book explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the nineteenth century. Gary Laderman offers insights into the construction of an "American way of death," illuminating the central role of the Civil War and tracing the birth of the funeral industry in the decades following the war. Drawing on medical histories, religious documents, personal diaries and letters, literature, painting, and photography, Laderman examines the cultural transformations that led to nationally organized death specialists, the practice of embalming, and the commodification of the corpse. These cultural changes included the development of liberal theology, which provided more spiritual views of heaven and the afterlife; the concern for health, which turned those who managed death toward more scientific treatment of bodies; and growing sentimentalism, which produced an increased desire to gaze upon the corpse or to take and keep death photographs. In particular Laderman focuses on the transforming effect of the Civil War, which presented so many Americans with dead relatives who needed to be recovered, viewed, and given a "proper burial."
