Cemeteries GravemarkersRichard Meyer Utah State University Press, 1992 - 347 pages Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large. |
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... nature from birth . 12 In a kind of literary cult of childhood that began around 1800 in England and developed throughout the nineteenth century in America , children's innocence and sincerity was juxtaposed against adult artifice.13 By ...
... nature from birth . 12 In a kind of literary cult of childhood that began around 1800 in England and developed throughout the nineteenth century in America , children's innocence and sincerity was juxtaposed against adult artifice.13 By ...
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... nature . Nature , by the mid - nineteenth century , had become associated with peace and virtue in the face of an urbanizing nation.31 The child - lying down with the lamb - expresses an affinity of which only he or she , in their young ...
... nature . Nature , by the mid - nineteenth century , had become associated with peace and virtue in the face of an urbanizing nation.31 The child - lying down with the lamb - expresses an affinity of which only he or she , in their young ...
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... nature of the death experience , often in terms of those who survive the loss . A large category of inscriptions somewhat below the level of full - blown epitaphs are those verbal utterances which convey the expression of grief over ...
... nature of the death experience , often in terms of those who survive the loss . A large category of inscriptions somewhat below the level of full - blown epitaphs are those verbal utterances which convey the expression of grief over ...
Contents
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
Copyright | |
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