The Resource The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study, Jeffrey A. Hammond
The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study, Jeffrey A. Hammond
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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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 264 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780521662451
- Label
- The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study
- Title
- The American Puritan elegy
- Title remainder
- a literary and cultural study
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeffrey A. Hammond
- Subject
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- American poetry -- New England -- History and criticism
- American poetry -- Puritan authors | History and criticism
- Christianity and literature -- New England -- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Death in literature
- Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism
- Grief in literature
- History
- Literature and anthropology -- New England -- History
- Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life
- American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1950-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hammond, Jeffrey
- Dewey number
- 811.009/3548
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS309.E4
- LC item number
- H36 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- Series volume
- 123
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Elegiac poetry, American
- American poetry
- American poetry
- American poetry
- Literature and anthropology
- Christianity and literature
- Puritans
- Death in literature
- Grief in literature
- Label
- The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study, Jeffrey A. Hammond
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index
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- Carrier MARC source
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- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 41564974
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521662451
- Lccn
- 99016898
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study, Jeffrey A. Hammond
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 41564974
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xv, 264 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521662451
- Lccn
- 99016898
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
Subject
- American poetry -- New England -- History and criticism
- American poetry -- Puritan authors | History and criticism
- Christianity and literature -- New England -- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Death in literature
- Elegiac poetry, American -- History and criticism
- Grief in literature
- History
- Literature and anthropology -- New England -- History
- Puritans -- New England -- Intellectual life
- American poetry -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
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