Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

Herausgeber: Engel, William E; Williams, Grant; Loughnane, Rory

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781108843393
• ISBN-10: 1108843395
• Artikelnr.: 64262206

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Between memory and death William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane and Grant Williams
Part I. The Arts of Remembering Death: 1. Death and the art of memory in Donne Rebeca Helfer
2. Spiritual accountancy in the age of Shakespeare Jonathan Baldo
3. Recollection and preemptive resurrection in Shakespeare's sonnets John S. Garrison
4. Learn how to die Scott Newstok
Part II. Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead: 5. Memory, climate, and mortality: The Dudley women among the fields Patricia Phillippy
6. Scattered bones, martyrs, materiality and memory in Drayton and Milton Philip Schwyzer
7. Theatrical monuments in Middleton's A game at chess Brian Chalk
8. Thomas Browne's retreat to earth Claire Preston
Part III. The Ends of Commemoration: 9. The Unton portrait reconsidered Peter Sherlock
10. Andrew Marvell's taste for death Anita Gilman Sherman
11. The many labours of mourning a virgin queen Andrew Hiscock
12. Superfluous men and the graveyard politics of the Duchess of Malfi Michael Neill
Bibliography
Index.