Reading the Gravestones of Old New England

John G.S. Hanson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

254 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8545-8 (ISBN)

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The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature. These epitaphs are old, but their themes are timeless: mourning and faith, grief and hope, loss, and memory. This book tells the story of a years-long walk among gravestones and shares insights gained along the way. It identifies the source texts and authors chosen for these stones; interprets something of the tastes and beliefs of the people who did the choosing; offers some hypotheses on the various ways these texts were accessible to readers in remote towns and villages; gives a brief summary of the religious context of the times; and reflects on how the language and literature chosen for these epitaphs express these peoples' conflicted and evolving attitudes towards life, death, and eternity.

John G.S. Hanson has given numerous presentations and written several articles on the subject of his epitaph research. He is an executive at an internet services company and lives in Tyringham and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments deletevii

Preface

Part I—Reading the Gravestones

of Early New England

Part II—Categories of Epitaphs

The Classic

Scripture

Psalms and Hymns

English and American Poetry

The Graveyard School

Recurring but Unidentified

Bespoke

Sudden Death

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	68 photos, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-8545-2 / 1476685452
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8545-8 / 9781476685458
Zustand	Neuware