Pleasure Grounds of Death
Pleasure Grounds of Death
The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America
Giguere, Joy M.
The University of Michigan Press
07/2024
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Introduction
Chapter 1: "Crowded till they are full": Burial Reform in the Early Republic
Chapter 2: "The hand of taste": The Success of Mount Auburn and the Beginning of a Movement
Chapter 3: "People seem to go there to enjoy themselves": Experimentation in the Cemetery Landscape
Chapter 4: "A tabernacle for the dead": National Expansion of the Rural Cemetery
Chapter 5: "Consecrated in a nation's heart": Rural cemeteries in Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 6: "Carpeted with a green, verdant mantle": Modernization and the Transformation from Rural to Landscape Lawn
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1: "Crowded till they are full": Burial Reform in the Early Republic
Chapter 2: "The hand of taste": The Success of Mount Auburn and the Beginning of a Movement
Chapter 3: "People seem to go there to enjoy themselves": Experimentation in the Cemetery Landscape
Chapter 4: "A tabernacle for the dead": National Expansion of the Rural Cemetery
Chapter 5: "Consecrated in a nation's heart": Rural cemeteries in Civil War and Reconstruction
Chapter 6: "Carpeted with a green, verdant mantle": Modernization and the Transformation from Rural to Landscape Lawn
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index