Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature

• Main Author: Schwyzer, Philip
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
• Subjects: Antiquities in literature; Archaeology in literature; Dead in literature; English literature; Exhumation; History and criticism; Ruins in literature

Table of Contents:

• Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge : open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- 'Mummy is become merchandise' : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-burial.