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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Hammond |
| ISBN: | 0521662451 9780521662451 9780521103817 0521103819 |
| OCLC Number: | 41564974 |
| Description: | xv, 264 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 123. |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey A. Hammond. |
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"Although one scarcely expects contemporary readers to show much interest in the multitude of formulaic death poems left behind by dead white (and mostly male) Puritans, Jeffery A. Hammond's study offers an impressively innovate approach to this subject matter." John Gatta Christianity and Literature "Never has thid body of peoms read so intensely and so well." Early American Literature: Volume 36 "Hammond's rich, erudite text is clearly addressed to academic peers...Hammond's achievement is considerable." American Literature Read more...
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