How Long to Read The American Puritan Elegy

How Long Does it Take to Read The American Puritan Elegy?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 28 minutes to read The American Puritan Elegy by Jeffrey A. Hammond

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is The American Puritan Elegy?

The American Puritan Elegy by Jeffrey A. Hammond is 264 pages long, and a total of 67,056 words.

This makes it 89% the length of the average book. It also has 82% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The American Puritan Elegy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 6 minutes to read The American Puritan Elegy aloud.

What Reading Level is The American Puritan Elegy?

The American Puritan Elegy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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