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American Puritan Elegy
A Literary and Cultural Study

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Klappentext Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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: aestheticising loss; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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Assisted by Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
Authors Jeffrey Hammond, Jeffrey A. Hammond, Jeffrey A. (St Mary''s College Hammond
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 01.06.2000
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
 
EAN 9780521662451
ISBN 978-0-521-66245-1
Pages 282
 
Series Cambridge Studies in American
 

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