English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century

Laws in Mourning
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4105-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Early Modern Literature in History

This book analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral and religious developments in the period 1606-1660 and discusses the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton and early modern women's writing. Brady combines Literary Theory, social and cultural History, Psychology and Anthropology to produce exciting and original readings of neglected source material.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brady, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on Transcriptions Introduction The Ritual of Elegiac Rhetoric The Rhetoric of Grief The Funerary Ritual in its Ritual Context Spectacular Executions of the 1640s Contesting Wills in Critical Elegy Grief Without Measure Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ANDREA BRADY teaches English Literature at Brunel University, London, UK. She is also a poet, has published widely on contemporary innovative poetry and runs the small press, Barque.