American puritan elegy
Jeffrey A. Hammond
Jeffrey Hammond's study of the funeral elegies of early New England reassesses a body of poems whose importance in their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to Puritan views on a specific process of mourning. The elegies emerge, he argues, as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience. They shed new light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture.
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Anno:
2000
Casa editrice:
Cambridge University Press
Lingua:
english
Pagine:
282
ISBN 10:
051101807X
ISBN 13:
9780521662451
Collana:
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
File:
PDF, 1.15 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2000