Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

• Main Author: Schwyzer, Philip
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007; Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 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

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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