A time to mourn : expressions of grief in nineteenth century America

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pike, Martha V., Armstrong, Janice Gray, (Author)
Corporate Author: Museums at Stony Brook
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stony Brook, N.Y. : Museums at Stony Brook, c1980.
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Table of Contents:
  • Where all our steps are tending : death in the American context / David E. Stannard
  • The problem of time in nineteenth century America / Harvey Green
  • Symbolic death : an anthropological view of mourning ritual in the nineteenth century / Lawrence Taylor
  • The worldly side of paradise : Green-Wood Cemetery / Donald E. Simon
  • Posthumous mourning portraiture / Phoebe Lloyd
  • Chrysallis of gloom : nineteenth century American mourning costume / Barbara Dodd Hillerman
  • Truly we live in a dying world : mourning on Long Island / P.G. Buckley