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Saltwater: Grief in Early America

Name: Saltwater: Grief in Early America
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469685380
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Contributors:

Mary Eyring

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Social Science, Psychology

Book Subcategory:

United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, Emotions

Book Topic:

Colonial Period (1600-1775), American

Series:

Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo

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Release Date:

02/18/25

ISBN 13:

9781469685380

Weight:

1.19 lbs

Size:

9.46 x 6.45 x 0.95 inches

Pages:

280

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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.

About the Author
Mary Eyring is associate professor of English and American studies at Brigham Young University.

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