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affect theory
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Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck
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disability theory
early American disability studies
early American ecocriticism
early American infanticide narratives
early American witchcraft
early American women writers
early New England ecology
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history of emotions
Lucy Terry Prince
Native American and Indigenous studies
oceanic studies
Pacific studies
postsecular early American literary criticism
Puritan studies
sentiment in early America
spiritual lives of early New Englanders
transnational American studies
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- ISBN 9781469685380
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Feb 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Death is easy to locate in the archives of early America. Grief is not so easily pinned down. Yet it was a near constant companion for the men and women that settled in what is now New England. Their lives were a kaleidoscope of small-scale tragedies that suffused and colored everyday experiences. This pervasive suffering was exacerbated by unfamiliar environments and exposure to the anguish of Indigenous and Black Americans, unsettling well-worn frameworks to produce new dimensions of everyday grief. Mary Eyring traces these fleeting, often mundane, glimpses of grief in the archives—a note about a sailor maimed during a whaling voyage, the hint of a miscarriage in a court record, the suggestion of domestic violence within a tract on witchcraft, a house sent up in flames at the opening of a captivity narrative—to show how the cumulative weight of grief created a persistent mood that influenced public and private affairs in sweeping ways largely unexamined by previous scholars.
With piercing insights and evocative prose, Eyring follows grief across generations and oceans to reveal a language of suffering understood and shared across diverse early American communities.
With piercing insights and evocative prose, Eyring follows grief across generations and oceans to reveal a language of suffering understood and shared across diverse early American communities.
Mary Eyring is associate professor of English and American studies at Brigham Young University.
