English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century : Laws in Mourning (Early Modern Literature in History)

Brady, Andrea

Palgrave Macmillan（2006/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 265 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781403941053
• DDC分類 821.04093548

基本説明

Analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral and religious developments in the period 1606-1660.

Full Description

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.

Contents

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