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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11598576.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-255) and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 264 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521662451".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [123]".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "New England".
- catalog subject "285.90974 21".
- catalog subject "811.009/3548 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American poetry New England History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American poetry Puritan authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and literature New England History.".
- catalog subject "Death in literature.".
- catalog subject "Elegiac poetry, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Grief in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and anthropology New England History.".
- catalog subject "PS309.E4 H36 2000".
- catalog subject "Puritans New England Intellectual life.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study / Jeffrey A. Hammond.".
- catalog type "text".