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Author Schwyzer, Philip.

Title Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature / Philip Schwyzer.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 227 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index.
Contents Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge : open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 'Mummy is become merchandise' : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-burial.
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Summary Early modern English literature abounds with archaeological images, from open graves to ruined monasteries. Schwyzer demonstrates that archaeology can shed light on literary texts including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne. The book also explores the kinship between two disciplines distinguished by their intimacy with the traces of past life. - ;This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary te.
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Subject Archaeology in literature.
Archaeology in literature.
Dead in literature.
Dead in literature.
Ruins in literature.
Ruins in literature.
Antiquities in literature.
Antiquities in literature.
Exhumation.
Exhumation.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1500-1700
1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Schwyzer, Philip. Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006036372
ISBN 0191525723 (electronic book)
9780191525728 (electronic book)
1281148946
9781281148940
0199206600 (Cloth)
9780199206605 (alkaline paper)