Shaping remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton / Patricia Phillippy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillippy, Patricia Berrahou, 1960- author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memorials.

History.

England.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Memory in literature.

Material culture in literature.

Memorials--England--History--16th century.

Memorials--England--History--17th century.

English literature--Early modern.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Whether situated in churches or circulating in more flexible, mobile works--manuscript and printed texts, jewels and rosaries, personal bequests, or antique "rarities"--monuments were ubiquitous in post-Reformation England. In this period of religious change, the unsettled meanings of sacred sites and artifacts encouraged a new conception of remembrance and, with it, changed relationships between devotional and secular writings, arts, and identities. Beginning in the parish church, Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton moves beyond that space to see remembrance as shaping dynamic systems within which early modern men and women experienced loss and recollection. Removing monuments from parochial or antiquarian concerns, this study reimagines them as pervasively involved with other commemorative works, not least the writings of our most canonical authors. These far-reaching, flexible chapters combine three critical strands--religion, materiality, and gender--to describe the arts of remembrance as material and textual remains of living webs of connection in which creators and creations are mutually involved"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : an amber casket

"A mousoleum for a flie" : Sidney Montagu and the sacramental sign

Wondrous work : crafting remembrance in the Montagu archive

Innogen's needle : remembrance and romance in Cymbeline

"The grave is but a cabinet" : remembrance and recreation in post-reformation London

Shakespearean reliquaries : Pericles and the ark of wonder

"Chain'd up in alabaster : awakening remembrance in The Winter's Tale and Comus

Conclusion: Many worlds fantastic framed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781108422987

1108422985

OCLC:

1028759888