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The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study

Author: Jeffrey Hammond
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 123.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy.

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Material Type: Internet resource
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 Read more...

 
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