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The American Puritan Elegy
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Author : Jeffrey A. Hammond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-06-01
The American Puritan Elegy written by Jeffrey A. Hammond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jeffrey 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.
The American Puritan Elegy
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Author : Safe Driver A. D. I.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The American Puritan Elegy written by Safe Driver A. D. I. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with American poetry categories.
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 dimension of Puritanism.
American Elegy
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Author : Max Cavitch
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
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American Elegy written by Max Cavitch and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The most widely practiced and read form of verse in America, “elegies are poems about being left behind,” writes Max Cavitch. American Elegy is the history of a diverse people’s poetic experience of mourning and of mortality’s profound challenge to creative living. By telling this history in political, psychological, and aesthetic terms, American Elegy powerfully reconnects the study of early American poetry to the broadest currents of literary and cultural criticism. Cavitch begins by considering eighteenth-century elegists such as Franklin, Bradstreet, Mather, Wheatley, Freneau, and Annis Stockton, highlighting their defiance of boundaries—between public and private, male and female, rational and sentimental—and demonstrating how closely intertwined the work of mourning and the work of nationalism were in the revolutionary era. He then turns to elegy’s adaptations during the market-driven Jacksonian age, including more obliquely elegiac poems like those of William Cullen Bryant and the popular child elegies of Emerson, Lydia Sigourney, and others. Devoting unprecedented attention to the early African-American elegy, Cavitch discusses poems written by free blacks and slaves, as well as white abolitionists, seeing in them the development of an African-American genealogical imagination. In addition to a major new reading of Whitman’s great elegy for Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” Cavitch takes up less familiar passages from Whitman as well as Melville’s and Lazarus’s poems following Lincoln’s death. American Elegy offers critical and often poignant insights into the place of mourning in American culture. Cavitch examines literary responses to historical events—such as the American Revolution, Native American removal, African-American slavery, and the Civil War—and illuminates the states of loss, hope, desire, and love in American studies today. Max Cavitch is assistant professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.
American Poetry
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Author : Alan Shucard
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1988
American Poetry written by Alan Shucard and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
A critical history of American poetry from the seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.
Design In Puritan American Literature
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Author : William J. Scheick
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Design In Puritan American Literature written by William J. Scheick and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Puritan American writers faced a dilemma: they had an obligation to use language as a celebration of divine artistry, but they could not allow their writing to become an iconic graven image of authorial self-idolatry. In this study William Scheick explores one way in which William Bradford, Nathaniel Ward, Anne Bradstreet, Urian Oakes, Edward Taylor, and Jonathan Edwards mediated these conflicting imperatives. They did so, he argues, by creating moments in their works when they and their audience could hesitate and contemplate the central paradox of language: its capacity to intimate both concealed authorial pride and latent deific design. These ambiguous occasions served Puritan writers as places where the threat of divine wrath and the promise of divine mercy intersected in unresolved tension. By the nineteenth century the heritage of this Christlike mingling of temporal connotation and eternal denotation had mutated. A peculiar late eighteenth-century narrative by Nathan Fiske and a short story by Edward Bellamy both suggest that the binary nature of language exploited by their Puritan ancestors was still a vital authorial concern; but neither of these writers affirms the presence of an eternal denotative signification hidden within the conflicting historical contexts of their apparently allegorical language. For them, appreciation of the mystery of a divine revelation possibly concealed in words yielded to puzzlement over language itself, specifically over the inadequacy of language to signify more than its own instability of design. This book is a tightly focused study of an important aspect of Puritan American writers' use of language by one of the leading scholars in the field of early American literature.
American Literature And The New Puritan Studies
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Author : Bryce Traister
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-07
American Literature And The New Puritan Studies written by Bryce Traister and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with Literary Collections categories.
This book reconsiders the role of seventeenth-century Puritanism in the creation of the United States and its consequent cultural and literary histories.
Speaking With The Dead In Early America
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Author : Erik R. Seeman
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Speaking With The Dead In Early America written by Erik R. Seeman and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with History categories.
In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abolished purgatory, as its leaders did not want attention to the dead diminishing people's devotion to God. But while the Reformation was supposed to end communication between the living and dead, it turns out the result was in fact more complicated than historians have realized. In the three centuries after the Reformation, Protestants imagined continuing relationships with the dead, and the desire for these relations came to form an important—and since neglected—aspect of Protestant belief and practice. In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, historian Erik R. Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead. Seeman chronicles the story of Protestants' relationships with the deceased from Elizabethan England to puritan New England and then on through the American Enlightenment into the middle of the nineteenth century with the explosion of interest in Spiritualism. He brings together a wide range of sources to uncover the beliefs and practices of both ordinary people, especially women, and religious leaders. This prodigious research reveals how sermons, elegies, and epitaphs portrayed the dead as speaking or being spoken to, how ghost stories and Gothic fiction depicted a permeable boundary between this world and the next, and how parlor songs and funeral hymns encouraged singers to imagine communication with the dead. Speaking with the Dead in Early America thus boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.
Revisiting The Elegy In The Black Lives Matter Era
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Author : Tiffany Austin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-09
Revisiting The Elegy In The Black Lives Matter Era written by Tiffany Austin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.
The American Puritans
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Author : Perry Miller
language : en
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Release Date : 1956
The American Puritans written by Perry Miller and has been published by Ravenio Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Literary Criticism categories.
Perry Miller was born in Chicago on February 25, 1905. He was educated at the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1931. Since then Mr. Miller taught at Harvard University and in 1946 became a Professor of American Literature there. He died in 1963. He was the author of Orthodoxy in Massachusetts (1933); The New England Mind (1939); Jonathan Edwards (1949); Roger Williams (1953); The Raven and the Whale (1956); and Errand into the Wilderness (1956). This anthology is organized as follows: Foreword Chapter One. History 1. William Bradford, 1590-1657 Of Plymouth Plantation 2. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 A Defense of the Answer 3. Edward Johnson, 1598-1672 Wonder-Working Providence of Sion’s Savior 4. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 Journal 5. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 The Antinomian Crisis 6. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 A General Introduction Chapter Two. State and Society 1. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 A Model of Christian Charity 2. John Cotton, 1584-1652 Limitation of Government 3. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 Hartford Election Sermon 4. John Winthrop, 1588-1649 Speech to the General Court 5. Nathaniel Ward, 1578-1652 The Simple Cobler of Aggawam 6. Jonathan Mitchell, 1624-1668 Nehemiah on the Wall 7. William Stoughton, 1631-1701 New England’s True Interest 8. William Hubbard, 1621-1704 The Happiness of a People 9. John Wise, 1652-1725 Vindication of the Government of New England Churches 10. Jonathan Mayhew, 1720-1766 A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission Chapter Three. This World and the Next 1. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 The Covenant of Grace 2. Peter Bulkeley, 1583-1659 The Lesson of the Covenant, for England and New England 3. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 A True Sight of Sin 4. Thomas Hooker, 1586-1647 Repentant Sinners and Their Ministers 5. John Cotton, 1584-1652 Christian Calling 6. Increase Mather, 1639-1723 Man Knows Not His Time 7. Urian Oakes, 1631-1681 The Sovereign Efficacy of Divine Providence 8. Samuel Sewall, 1652-1730 Phaenomena 9. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 Bonifacius 10. Solomon Stoddard, 1643-1729 Concerning Ancestors Chapter Four. Personal Narrative 1. Thomas Shepard, 1605-1649 Autobiography 2. Increase Mather, 1639-1723 Richard Mather 3. Samuel Sewall, 1652-1730 Diary 4. John Williams, 1664-1729 The Redeemed Captive Chapter Five. Poetry 1. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Several Poems 2. Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Meditations 3. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 The Day of Doom 4. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 God’s Controversy With New England 5. E.B. A Threnodia 6. Edward Taylor, 1645?-1729 God’s Determinations Touching His Elect 7. Edward Taylor, 1645?-1729 Poems and Sacramental Meditations Chapter Six. Literary and Educational Ideals 1. Richard Mather, 1596-1669 The Bay Psalm Book 2. New England’s First Fruits New England’s First Fruits 3. Michael Wigglesworth, 1631-1705 The Praise of Eloquence 4. Cotton Mather, 1663-1728 Of Style
The American Aeneas
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Author : John C. Shields
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2004-11
The American Aeneas written by John C. Shields and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11 with History categories.
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book?? "John Shields's book is a provocative challenge to the venerable Adamic myth so exhaustively deployed in examinations of early American literature and in American studies. Moreover, The American Aeneas builds wonderfully on Shields's considerable work on Phillis Wheatley. "?--American Literature?? "The American Aeneas should be of interest to classicists and American studies scholars alike." ?--The New England Quarterly?? John Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting the biblical character Adam as an archetype who has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nation's cultural identity--a secular one deriving from the classical tradition--has been seriously neglected.??Shields shows how Adam and Aeneas--Vergil's hero of the Aeneid-- in crossing over to American from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of "pastlessness" that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. John C. Shields is the editor of The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley and the author of The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, which won a Choice Outstanding Academic Book award and an honorable mention in the Harry Levin Prize competition, sponsored by the American Comparative Literature Association.