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OverviewRural cemeteries—named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location—were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation’s first such burial ground to combine the functions of the public park and the cemetery, becoming a popular place to picnic and go for strolls even for people who didn’t have graves to visit. It sparked a nationwide movement in which communities sought to establish their own cities of the dead. Pleasure Grounds of Death considers the history of the rural cemetery in the United States throughout the duration of the nineteenth century as not only a critical cultural institution embedded in the formation of community and national identities, but also as major sites of contest over matters of burial reform, taste and respectability, and public behavior; issues concerning race, class, and gender; conflicts over the burial of the Civil War dead and formation of postwar memory; and what constituted the most appropriate ways to structure the landscape of the dead in a modern and progressive society. As cultural landscapes that served the needs of the living as well as the dead, rural cemeteries offer a mirror for the transformations and conflicts taking place throughout the nineteenth century in American society. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Joy M. GiguerePublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472056897ISBN 10: 0472056891 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 31 July 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationJoy M. Giguere is Associate Professor of History at Penn State York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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