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'Awaiting the Heavenly Country' Examines the American Death Cultnew
With generous illustrated examples, Professor Mark S. Schantz depicts an America preoccupied with death. In this America, Shakespeare and militaristic Greek classicists like Herodotus were popular reading, and families of the 1830s and 1840s treasured photographic portraits of the freshly dead, including infants and children.
Shepherd Express |
Eric Beaumont |
11-10-2008 |
Nonfiction
The Faith of Easy Rawlinsnew
By "people like me," Easy might mean black men in 20th-century America. But, given Easy's dramatic personality change in this story, the proclamation bears rereading.
Shepherd Express |
Eric Beaumont |
02-22-2008 |
Fiction
