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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature /

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 distingui...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwyzer, Philip
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.