Pleasure Grounds of Death – The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth–Century America

Pleasure Grounds of DeathThe Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America\nAuthor(s): Joy M. Giguere\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472076895, 978-0472076895\nSynopsis\nRural cemeteries??named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location??were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation??s first such burial ground to combine the functions of the public park and the cemetery, becoming a popular place to picnic and go for strolls even for people who didn??t have graves to visit. It sparked a nationwide movement in which communities sought to establish their own cities of the dead.\n\nPleasure Grounds of Death considers the history of the rural cemetery in the United States throughout the duration of the nineteenth centur.