Philip Schwyzer

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

However impossible or absurd this desire may be, it remains a fundamental source of both ethical responsibility and aesthetic pleasure.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199206605
• ISBN-10: 0199206600
• Artikelnr.: 22167469

Autorenporträt

Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture in the Department of English, University of Exeter. He is the author of Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 (Ashgate, 2004). His essays on archaeology, literature, and national identity in the early modern period and later have appeared in various journals.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Intimate Disciplines: Archaeology, Literary Criticism, and the
Traces of the Dead
* 2: Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: Colonial Archaeology From St.
Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland
* 3: Dissolving Images: Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry
* 4: Charnel Knowledge: Open Graves in Shakespeare and Donne
* 5: 'Mummy Is Become Merchandise': Cannibals and Commodities in the
Seventeenth Century
* 6: Readers of the Lost Urns: Desire and Disintegration in Thomas
Browne's Urn-Burial