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The American Puritan elegy : a literary and cultural study /
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 neglect in ours. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to shed new light on the emotional dimens...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Monuments enduring and otherwise; CHAPTER 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: Aestheticizing loss; Notes; Works cited; Index.