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Article: Mortal Remains: Death in Early America.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2004
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Mortal Remains: Death in Early America. Edited, and with an introduction, by Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burnstein. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. ix, 253. $18.95.)
"How is the culturally learned fear of finality explained?" (1). The twelve contributors who seek to answer this query in Mortal Remains presented papers at a symposium on the subject in 2001. They begin from the conviction that experiences with death were enlarged in early America by an imagination of death fed not only by religion, but also by national and gender politics and by race relations. In their introduction, the editors insist that the interaction of an early ...