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

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture Cambridge studies in American literature and culture. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Monuments enduring and otherwise; CHAPTER 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; Notes; Works cited; Index Summary Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to shed new light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index Notes Print version record Subject Grief in literature. Death in literature. Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life Christianity and literature -- New England -- History Literature and anthropology -- New England -- History American poetry -- New England -- History and criticism American poetry -- Puritan authors -- History and criticism American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism American poetry American poetry -- Colonial period American poetry -- Puritan authors Christianity and literature Death in literature Elegiac poetry, American Grief in literature Literature and anthropology Puritans -- Intellectual life New England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 0511118163 9780511118166 0521662451 9780521662451 051104898X 9780511048982

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