Jeffrey A. Hammond

The American Puritan Elegy

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780521662451
• ISBN-10: 0521662451
• Artikelnr.: 21502267

Inhaltsangabe

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.