Melville’s Over My Dead Body is a lively and wide-ranging history of cemeteries, places that have mirrored the passing eras in history but also have shaped it. Cemeteries have given birth to landscape architecture and famous parks, as well as influenced architectural styles. They’ve inspired and motivated some of our greatest poets and authors—Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson. They’ve been used as political tools to shift the country’s discourse and as important symbols of the United States’ ambition and reach.

Harry N. Abrams, 2023.
ISBN: 9781419754869. 263 pp.
Illus.
Softcover. Near fine.