... linguis-tically and culturally constructed, I thus accept the traditional anthropo-logical assumption that certain patterns of grief and mourning aretranscultural and transhistorical. If social “power” ... to proclaim – and to proclaim itso clearly that no hearer in heaven or earth could miss it – that there wasbut one faith and one salvation. David Dewey had lived a life so clearlystamped with ... chivalry toward the dead is a familiarimpulse among early Americanists, veterans of a longstanding struggleto get our period and our writers taken seriously. Puritanists in particu-lar have...