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Nicole: Take a look, if you haven't already, at Karen Halttunen's *Confidence Men and Painted Woman*, which connects 19th-century death rituals to the rise of middle-class culture. Halttunen's work, like Faust's, suggests the importance of seeing the ideal of the good death not just as an abstract cultural rule-- one more way for the middle class (as Philippe Ariès put it) to "secede" from the rest of the population and mark itself off as the virtuous cohort-- but as a deeply felt and sought-after experience, "religious" in its emotional intensity yet reaching well beyond the church-going population. Richard Fox Dept. of History University of Southern California
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