The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study
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.
عام:
2000
الناشر:
Cambridge University Press
اللغة:
english
الصفحات:
282
ISBN 10:
0521662451
ISBN 13:
9780521662451
سلسلة الكتب:
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
ملف:
PDF, 1.32 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2000