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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Acknowledgements
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
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cemetery; rural cemetery; reform cemetery; burial ground; burying ground; gravestones; monuments; landscape lawn cemetery; Mount Auburn Cemetery; Grove Street Cemetery; Laurel Hill Cemetery; Green-Wood Cemetery; Green Mount Cemetery; Hollywood Cemetery; Cave Hill Cemetery; Spring Grove Cemetery; Magnolia Cemetery; Mount Hope Cemetery; Allegheny Cemetery; Homewood Cemetery; Druid Ridge Cemetery; Jacob Bigelow; Adolph Strauch; Henry Dearborn; John Jay Smith; Edward Everett; Joseph Story; Civil War; burial; grave; mausoleum; yellow fever; miasmatic theory; Civil War monument; Civil War memory; John Muir; Bellefontaine Cemetery; Graceland Cemetery; Rose Hill Cemetery; picturesque; romanticism; funeral; mourning; commemoration; memorial