Buried alive : the terrifying history of our most primal fear
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Author
Published
New York : Norton, 2001.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780393049060, 039304906X, 9780756774721, 0756774721, 9780393322224, 039332222X
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Cranston Central - Adult Non-Fiction
616 .078 BON
1 available
616 .078 BON
1 available
Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks
614 B711b
1 available
614 B711b
1 available
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Published
New York : Norton, 2001.
Language
English
ISBN
9780393049060, 039304906X, 9780756774721, 0756774721, 9780393322224, 039332222X
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales - just think of The Premature Burial - may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1880s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrible, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead."
Description
"With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. Jan Bondeson looks at legends from the Renaisance of thieves awakening supposedly deceased women when they try to steal the women's jewelry, as well as people awakening on the way to their funerals or even later in the graveyard. He then looks at the bizarre nineteenth-century security coffins with bellropes or escape hatches, and the macabre waiting mortuaries for decaying corpses, as well as the writers who were inspired to use themes as premature burial in their work.
Description
Finally, he questions whether our medical criteria today for determining if someone is dead are truly reliable."--Jacket.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Cranston Central - Adult Non-Fiction | 616 .078 BON | On Shelf |
Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks | 614 B711b | On Shelf |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bondeson, J. (2001). Buried alive: the terrifying history of our most primal fear . Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bondeson, Jan. 2001. Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear. Norton.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bondeson, Jan. Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear Norton, 2001.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bondeson, Jan. Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear Norton, 2001.
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