Patricia Phillippy

Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

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Produktbeschreibung

Phillippy examines the literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9780521814898
• ISBN-10: 0521814898
• Artikelnr.: 22729825

Autorenporträt

Patricia Phillippy is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Love''s Remedies: Recantation and Renaissance Lyric Poetry (1995).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. A map of death
Part I. Disposing of the Body: 2. The body of history: embalming and historiography in Shakespeare's Henry VIII
3. Humility and stoutness: the lives an deaths of Christian women
4. London's mourning garment: maternity, mourning and succession in Shakespeare's Richard III
Part II. Sisters of Magdalene: 5. 'I might againe have been the sepulcure': maternal mourning and the encrypted corpse
6. 'Quod licuit feci': Elizabeth Russell and the power of mourning
7. The mat(t)er of death: the defense of Eve and the female Ars Morendi
Codicil: 'A web of blacke'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.