The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

by Jeffrey A. Hammond

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521103819

ISBN13:9780521103817

Release Date:December 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:284 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Criticism & Theory Genres & Styles History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Poetry

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