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Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.
Contents
Introduction: Between memory and death William E. Engel, Rory Loughnane and Grant Williams; Part I. The Arts of Remembering Death: 1. Death and the art of memory in Donne Rebeca Helfer; 2. Spiritual accountancy in the age of Shakespeare Jonathan Baldo; 3. Recollection and preemptive resurrection in Shakespeare's sonnets John S. Garrison; 4. Learn how to die Scott Newstok; Part II. Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead: 5. Memory, climate, and mortality: The Dudley women among the fields Patricia Phillippy; 6. Scattered bones, martyrs, materiality and memory in Drayton and Milton Philip Schwyzer; 7. Theatrical monuments in Middleton's A game at chess Brian Chalk; 8. Thomas Browne's retreat to earth Claire Preston; Part III. The Ends of Commemoration: 9. The Unton portrait reconsidered Peter Sherlock; 10. Andrew Marvell's taste for death Anita Gilman Sherman; 11. The many labours of mourning a virgin queen Andrew Hiscock; 12. Superfluous men and the graveyard politics of the Duchess of Malfi Michael Neill; Bibliography; Index.
