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Index Adams, Abigail, 82 Adams,John, 7, 82, 84, 92, 93, 97-102, 106, 143 Adams,John Quincy, 99, 100 Addison,Joseph, 71, 72, 135 Adgerjohn, 152 African religious traditions, 154—58 Alien and Sedition Acts, 82, 88 Allen, Lewis, 149 America in Distress, 80 American Crisis, 135 American Revolution, 1, 7, 71, 73, 91, 92, 95, 97, 101, 124-25, 127,130-35, 141-42, 151, 172 Ames, Fisher, 94 Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, 75, 80 Andre, John, 9, 12, 123-35, 192 Angel of Bethesda, The, 166 Angels, 3, 11, 163-75, 180 Annals of Murder, 37 Aries, Philippe, 4 Arnold, Benedict, 124 Ars moriendi, 5, 11, 19, 25 Arthur Merwyn, 118 Bache, Benjamin Franklin, 84, 93 Bancroft, George, 103 Barber, Alice, 178 Barnes, Elizabeth, 35 Bartlett,Josiah, 97 Barton, Titus, 97 Bathurst, Robert, 154 Belisarius, 76-77 Belligerant Plenipo's, The, 79-81 Belnap,Jeremy, 139 Bennett, Rolla, 153 Bennett, Thomas, 153 Blood Will Out, 50 Bloody Buoy, The,85 Bones, 9-10, 137-38, 141-43, 146, 148, 152 Bookfor Skeptics, 174 Book of Martyrs, 27 Bosnian, William, 153 Bower,John, 184 Bowles,John A., 103 Boylston, Zabdiel, 62 Brackenridge, Hugh Henry, 29-30 Britannia Mutilated, 78-79 British Prison-Ship, The, 141 Broker, Robert, 65 Bronte, Charlotte, 113 Bronte, EmilyJane, 113 Brown, Charles Brockden, 109, 117-18 Brown, William Hill, 8, 109-14 Bryant, William Cullen, 140 Buchanan, James, 126-31 Burial. See Death, and burial Burke, Edmund, 82 Burr, Aaron, 49 Burstein, Andrew, 7, 12, 17 Bute, Lord, 78 Byron, George Gordon, 187, 190, 196 Call, Richard Keith, 105 Calvin,John, 43, 163, 171 Campbell, William, 151 Camus, Albert, 56 Capel, Arthur, 46 Carr, Eva, 186 Catholicism, 11, 12, 19-20, 24, 25, 39-40, 46, 137,164,165,169, 174, 175 Cato's Tears, 119 Charlotte Temple, 7, 8, 109, 112, 114-16 Chesnut, Mary, 159-60 Cinque-Tetes, 82, 87-88 Clark,John, 50-51 Clay, Henry, 99 Cobbett, William, 8, 81-85, 88-90, 135 Codrington, Christopher, 152 Cody, Iron Eyes, 18 Coffin, Alexander, 145 Cogswell, Hannah, 171 250 Index Cohen, Daniel A., 4, 5, 12 Cole, Thomas, 192 Columbus, Christopher, 73 Common Sense, 123, 135 Conduct of Two Butchers, The,75 Connors, Thomas G., 12 Cook,Joseph, 142 Cook, Karen, 74 Cooper, James Fenimore, 9, 17, 131, 134 Coquette, The,109, 111, 112, 116-18 Corpses, 26, 29, 34, 48, 51, 57, 66, 71, 72, 75, 81, 90,115,123-29,133, 140, 154, 155, 156, 224 n.58 Costner, Kevin, 17 Cowper, Spencer, 48-49 Craig, Caleb, 156 Cranch, William, 99 Cranford, James, 39-40 Cray, Robert, 130 Cripps,John, 25 Cromwell, Oliver, 154 Curtis, Amelia Lewis, 176-77 Dafoe, Willem, 3 Darly, M., 78 Davis,John, 105 Davis, Polly, 170-71 Death: and burial, 10, 30, 66-67, 156-57, 187-203; and compassion, 4-5, 13, 176-77, 186; and gendered notions of, 6-8, 11, 13, 71-90, 110-18, 163, 167-75; "good death," 4, 5, 25; rituals, 2, 6, 13, 56-58, 63-67, 117, 137, 153, 156-57; sensationalistic, 3, 6, 33-55, 71-72, 75, 78, 83-88, 118; and the supernatural, 11, 158-60, 163-75; as waste, 5, 20, 23, 75, 141,149. See also Corpses; Disease; Dismemberment; Executions; Martyrdom; Murder; Sentimentalism Death and theMaiden, 72 Deeds Against Nature, 39 Demarat, Rev., 129 Dennis, Matthew,9, 10, 12 Dent,John Horrey, 151 De Witt, Benjamin, 147 Dickens, Charles, 189 Discipline and Punish,26 Disease, 1, 5-6, 21, 22, 56-67, 108, 118, 169,178-82, 185 Dismemberment, 6, 10, 12, 39-41, 74-90, 149-53, 191 Dissection, 73, 75, 149, 155, 220 n.17 Donne,John, 56 Douglas, Ann, 185 Dow, Lorenzo, 180 Dow, Peggy, 180 Downing, AndrewJackson, 192, 194 Downing, SallyDrinker, 57, 65 Dozier, Washington, 158 Drewry, William Sidney, 160 Drinker, Elizabeth, 5, 6, 56-58, 64-67 Drinker, Henry, 67 Duer, William Alexander, 99 Duston, Hannah, 23 Eaton,John Henry, 105 Edwards, Minerva, 159-60 Egerton, Douglas R., 9, 10, 12, 13 Elfrith, Josiah, 66 Eliot,John, 25 Ellison,Julie, 30, 119 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 197 Essex, earl of, 46-47, 49 Evans, Enoch ap, 34 Everett, Edward, 99 Everett,J., 174 Executions, 31, 124-26,149-55 Ferguson, Robert, 46-47 Fischer, David H., 57 "Forensic Files," 2 Forster, William, 155 Foster, Hannah Webster, 109, 111, 116, 117 Foucault, Michel, 26 Four Stages of Cruelty, 75 Fox, Susan, 181-83 Franklin, Benjamin, 6...

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