The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study by Jeffrey A. Hammond

The American Puritan Elegy by Jeffrey A. Hammond

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Description 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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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 new 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 in their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.

Details ISBN 0521662451 ISBN-13 9780521662451 Title The American Puritan Elegy Author Jeffrey A. Hammond Format Hardcover Year 2000 Pages 282 Publisher Cambridge University Press GE_Item_ID:7765105; About Us

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