Speaking With the Dead in Early America

Erik R. Seeman is Professor of History at the University at Buffalo. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492-1800, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

List of contents

Introduction. Speaking with the Dead
Chapter 1. The Transatlantic Science of the Dead
Chapter 2. Elegy in Puritan New England
Chapter 3. Talking Gravestones and Visions of Heaven
Chapter 4. Voices of the Dead in the American Enlightenment
Chapter 5. Eighteenth-Century Imaginative Literature
Chapter 6. Revelations and New Denominations
Chapter 7. Religious Objects, Sacred Space, and the Cult of the Dead
Chapter 8. Ghosts, Guardian Angels, and Departed Spirits
Conclusion. Continuing Relationships
Notes
Index Acknowledgments

About the author

Erik R. Seeman

Summary

In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, Erik Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead, from Elizabethan England to the mid-nineteenth-century United States. Through prodigious research and careful analysis, he boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.

Product details

• Authors: Erik R Seeman, Erik R. Seeman
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780812251531
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5153-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, HISTORY / Social History, USA: Kolonisierung und Besiedlung (ca. 1600 bis 1775), HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), History - U.S., RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations