Passing : the vision of death in America

Author(s)

• Jackson, Charles O.

Bibliographic Information

Passing : the vision of death in America

edited by Charles O. Jackson

（Contributions in family studies, no. 2）

Greenwood Press, 1977

Note

Bibliography: p. [245]-253

Includes index

Contents of Works

• "Prepare for death and follow me" : colonial America
• Destination : death / Cyclone Covey
• Death ritual in colonial New York / Alice Morse Earle
• Of the extravagance of our funerals / William Livingston
• Death's heads, cherubs, and willow trees / Edwin Dethlefsen and James Deetz
• "Reaching for the choir invisible" : the nineteenth century
• Death in the popular mind of pre-Civil War America / Lewis O. Saum
• The pattern of late nineteenth-century funerals. / Robert W. Habenstein and William M. Lamers
• The cemetery beautiful / Neil Harris
• "If a man die, shall he live again?" / Paul Carter
• The gates ajar / Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• "Death shall have no dominion" : the twentieth century
• Forbidden death / Philippe Ariès
• The effects of city civilization / Leroy Bowman
• Death and social structure / Robert Blauner
• On the fear of death / Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• The modern park cemetery / Herbert Blaney
• Passing : an epilogue
• Death in American life / Charles O. Jackson

Details

• NCID: BA01346026
• ISBN:
  • 0837197570
• LCCN: 77023794
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Westport, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 258 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GT3203
  • DC : 393/.0973
  • NDC8 : 385.6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Funeral rites and ceremonies -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Death -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00236634