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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction - The Work of the Dead
PART I - The Deep Time of the Dead
Chapter 1 - Do the Dead Matter?
Chapter 2 - The Dead Body and the Persistence of Being
Chapter 3 - The Cultural Work of the Dead
PART II - Places of the Dead
Chapter 4 - The Churchyard and the Old Regime
The Development of the Churchyard
Language
Place
The Church and Churchyard in the Landscape
Necrogeography
Necrobotany
Necrotopology and Memory
The Life and Afterlife of the Churchyard in Literature
The Passage of the Dead to the Churchyard
Law
Exclusion from the Churchyard
The Claims of the Dead Body on the Parish Churchyard
The Claims of the Parish on the Dead Body
The Economics of Churchyard Burial
The Right to Burial and the Crisis of the Old Regime
Enlightenment Scandals
Voltaire
David Hume
Chapter 5 - The Cemetery and the New Regime
The Danger of the Dead and the Rise of the Cemetery
Genealogies of the New Regime
Imagination: Elysium, Arcadia, and the Dead of the Eighteenth Century
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Distant Lands and the Imperial Imagination
The Age of the Cemetery
Novelty
Necrogeography and Necrobotany
Cemeteries and Capitalism
Religious Pluralism in the Age of the Cemetery
Reform, Revolution, and the Cemetery
Class, Family, and the Cemetery
Putting the Dead in Their Place: Pauper Funerals and Proper Funerals, Burials and Reburials
Disrupted Bodies
PART III - Names of the Dead
Chapter 6 - The Names of the Dead in Deep Time
Names of the Dead in Times of War
Names of the Dead in Times of Peace
Chapter 7 - The Rise of the Names of the Dead in Modern History
Chapter 8 - The Age of Necronominalism
Names over Bodies
Names and the Absent but Present Body
Monumental Names
Names of the Vanished Dead
Chapter 9 - The Names of the Great War
PART IV - Burning the Dead
Chapter 10 - Disenchantment and Cremation
Chapter 11 - Ashes and History
Different Enchantments
Ashes in Their Place
Afterword: From a History of the Dead to a History of Dying
The Future
Notes
Image Credits
Index
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