The American Puritan elegy: a literary and cultural study

"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...

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Main Author: Hammond, Jeffrey A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2000
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 123
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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.
Physical Description:XV, 264 S.
ISBN:0521662451