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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature / Philip Schwyzer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwyzer, Philip, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Archaeology in literature.
- Dead in literature.
- Ruins in literature.
- Antiquities in literature.
- Exhumation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Early modern English literature abounds with archaeological images, from open graves to ruined monasteries. Showing that archaeology can shed light on literary texts, including works by Shakespeare and Donne, the book explores the kinship between two disciplines distinguished by their intimacy with traces of past life.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-222) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03456-7
- 1-281-14894-6
- 9786611148942
- 0-19-152572-3
- 1-4294-9283-X
- OCLC:
- 476239938
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