Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"This collection of essays by leading scholars of death and memory studies outlines the cultural, religious, epistemological, and political contexts for understanding how people in Renaissance England engaged with memorialization while at the same time recalling their own mortality"-- Provided by publisher. |
Access |
DRM-free. |
Contents |
Introduction: Between memory and death / William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane, and Grant Williams -- Death and the art of memory in Donne / Rebeca Helfer -- Spiritual accountancy in the age of Shakespeare / Jonathan Baldo -- Recollection and preemptive resurrection in Shakespeare's Sonnets / John S. Garrison -- Learn how to die / John S. Garrison -- Memory, climate, and mortality : the Dudley women among the fields / Patricia Phillippy -- Scattered bones, martyrs, materiality, and memory in Drayton and Milton / Philip Schwyzer -- Theatrical monuments in Middleton's A game at chess / Brian Chalk -- Thomas Browne's Retreat to Earth / Claire Preston -- The Unton portrait reconsidered / Peter Sherlock -- Andrew Marvell's Taste for death / Anita Gilman Sherman -- The many labours of mourning a virgin queen / Andrew Hiscock -- "Superfluous men" and the graveyard politics of the Duchess of Malfi / Michael Neill. |
Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
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Mortality in literature.
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Mortality in literature. |
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Death in literature.
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Death in literature. |
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English literature -- Early modern. |
Chronological Term |
1500-1700 |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Added Author |
Engel, William E., 1957- editor.
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Loughnane, Rory, editor.
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Williams, Grant, 1965- editor.
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Other Form: |
Original 1108843395 9781108843393 (OCoLC)1322366105 |
ISBN |
9781108911023 electronic book |
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1108911021 electronic book |
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9781108918565 electronic book |
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1108918565 electronic book |
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1108843395 |
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9781108843393 |
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