The American Puritan Elegy

The American Puritan Elegy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 282
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ISBN-10 : 9781139429771
ISBN-13 : 1139429779
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Book Synopsis The American Puritan Elegy by : Jeffrey A. Hammond

Download or read book The American Puritan Elegy written by Jeffrey A. Hammond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.


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