The death arts in Renaissance England : a critical anthology /
The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over seventy extracts and twenty illustrations to establish and analyzse how people grappled with mortality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2022].
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| Summary: | The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over seventy extracts and twenty illustrations to establish and analyzse how people grappled with mortality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and over-all texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction considers death's intersections with print, gender, sex and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research. |
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108479271 1108479278 9781108749565 1108749569 |