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The American Puritan elegy : = a literary and cultural study /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The American Puritan elegy :/ Jeffrey A. Hammond.
Reminder of title:	a literary and cultural study /
Author:	Hammond, Jeffrey,
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Elegiac poetry, American - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485510
ISBN:	9780511485510 (ebook)

The American Puritan elegy : = a literary and cultural study /
Hammond, Jeffrey,1950-

The American Puritan elegy :a literary and cultural study /Jeffrey A. Hammond. - 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;123. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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 post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.

ISBN: 9780511485510 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

799641
Elegiac poetry, American
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PS309.E4 / H36 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 811.009/3548

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