Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature
This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary texts including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Rom...
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Abstract | This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary texts including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, Donne’s sermons and lyrics, and Thomas Browne’s Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall. Miraculously preserved corpses, ruined monasteries, Egyptian mummies, and Yorick’s skull all figure in this study of the early modern archaeological imagination. The pessimism of the period is summed up in the haunting motif of the beautiful corpse that, once touched, crumbles to dust. Archaeology and literary studies are themselves products of the Renaissance. Although the two disciplines have sometimes viewed one another as rivals, they share a unique and unsettling intimacy with the traces of past life – with the words the dead wrote, sang, or heard, with the objects they made, held, or lived within. Schwyzer argues that at the root of both forms of scholarship lies the forbidden desire to awaken (and speak with) the dead. However impossible or absurd this desire may be, it remains a fundamental source of both ethical responsibility and aesthetic pleasure. |
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AbstractList | This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary texts including Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet, Donne’s sermons and lyrics, and Thomas Browne’s Hydriotaphia, or Urne-Buriall. Miraculously preserved corpses, ruined monasteries, Egyptian mummies, and Yorick’s skull all figure in this study of the early modern archaeological imagination. The pessimism of the period is summed up in the haunting motif of the beautiful corpse that, once touched, crumbles to dust. Archaeology and literary studies are themselves products of the Renaissance. Although the two disciplines have sometimes viewed one another as rivals, they share a unique and unsettling intimacy with the traces of past life – with the words the dead wrote, sang, or heard, with the objects they made, held, or lived within. Schwyzer argues that at the root of both forms of scholarship lies the forbidden desire to awaken (and speak with) the dead. However impossible or absurd this desire may be, it remains a fundamental source of both ethical responsibility and aesthetic pleasure. Early modern English literature abounds with archaeological images, from open graves to ruined monasteries. Schwyzer demonstrates that archaeology can shed light on literary texts including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne. The book also explores the kinship between two disciplines distinguished by their intimacy with the traces of past life. 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. |
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SubjectTerms | Antiquities in literature Archaeology Archaeology by period / region Archaeology in literature Dead in literature Early modern, 1500-1700 English and Anglo-Saxon literatures English literature European Archaeology Exhumation History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM Literary Studies (Renaissance / Early Modern) Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Renaissance Ruins in literature SOCIAL SCIENCE |
TableOfContents | Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Intimate Disciplines: Archaeology, Literary Criticism, and the Traces of the Dead -- 2. Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: Colonial Archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- 3. Dissolving Images: Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry -- 4. Charnel Knowledge: Open Graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 5. 'Mummy is Become Merchandise': Cannibals and Commodities in the Seventeenth Century -- 6. Readers of the Lost Urns: Desire and Disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z |
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