Title The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study / Jeffrey A. Hammond

Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description xv, 264 pages ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture Cambridge studies in American literature and culture. Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. Monuments enduring and otherwise -- 2. Toward an anthropology of Puritan reading -- 3. Weep for yourselves -- the Puritan theology of mourning -- 4. This potent fence: the holy sin of grief -- 5. Lord, is it I?: Christic saints and apostolic mourners -- 6. Diffusing all by pattern: the reading of saintly lives -- Epilogue: aestheticizing loss Summary "Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to a specific process of mourning defined by Puritan views on death and grief. The elegies emerge, he argues, not as "poems" to be read and appreciated in a postromantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation."--BOOK JACKET Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index Notes Print version record Subject American poetry -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism. American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism. American poetry -- New England -- History and criticism. Christianity and literature -- New England -- History. Death in literature. Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism. Grief in literature. Literature and anthropology -- New England -- History. Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. LC no. 99016898 ISBN 0521662451 :

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