Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Monuments enduring and otherwise
- Chapter 2 Toward an anthropology of Puritan reading
- Chapter 3 Weep for yourselves: the Puritan theology of mourning
- Chapter 4 This potent fence: the holy sin of grief
- Chapter 5 Lord, is it I?: Christic saints and apostolic mourners
- Chapter 6 Diffusing all by pattern: the reading of saintly lives
- Epilogue: Aestheticizing loss
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Monuments enduring and otherwise
- Chapter 2 Toward an anthropology of Puritan reading
- Chapter 3 Weep for yourselves: the Puritan theology of mourning
- Chapter 4 This potent fence: the holy sin of grief
- Chapter 5 Lord, is it I?: Christic saints and apostolic mourners
- Chapter 6 Diffusing all by pattern: the reading of saintly lives
- Epilogue: Aestheticizing loss
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
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- The American Puritan ElegyA Literary and Cultural Study, pp. 211 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000