LEADER 04246nam 2200853 a 450 001 9910827860703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-11854-9 010 $a1-280-15457-8 010 $a0-511-11816-3 010 $a0-511-01807-X 010 $a0-511-15432-1 010 $a0-511-30366-1 010 $a0-511-48551-4 010 $a0-511-04898-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000000549 035 $a(EBL)201607 035 $a(OCoLC)613340568 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102366 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11113748 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102366 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10051067 035 $a(PQKB)10010676 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511485510 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201607 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL201607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014947 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15457 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000000549 100 $a19990609d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe American Puritan elegy $ea literary and cultural study /$fJeffrey A. Hammond 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-10381-9 311 $a0-521-66245-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 240-255) and index. 327 $a1. 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: Aestheticizing loss. 330 $aJeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to a specific process of mourning defined by Puritan views on death and grief. The elegies emerge, he argues not as 'poems' to be read and appreciated in a post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English. 410 0$aCambridge studies in American literature and culture. 606 $aElegiac poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$xPuritan authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican poetry$zNew England$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and anthropology$zNew England$xHistory 606 $aChristianity and literature$zNew England$xHistory 606 $aPuritans$zNew England$xIntellectual life 606 $aDeath in literature 606 $aGrief in literature 615 0$aElegiac poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xPuritan authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and anthropology$xHistory. 615 0$aChristianity and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aPuritans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 615 0$aGrief in literature. 676 $a811.009/3548 700 $aSafe Driver A. D. I$0864572 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827860703321 996 $aThe American Puritan elegy$94105181 997 $aUNINA