Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America

by Erika Doss

Book Overview

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In Memorial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226159418
• ISBN13: 9780226159416
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"