The corpse as text : disinterment and antiquarian enquiry, 1700-1900 /

Between 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver C...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tomaini, Thea (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, [2017]
Temas:
1714-1901
Antiquities > Political aspects > England.
Exhumation > England > History.
Grave robbing > England > History.
Nationalism and literature > England > History.
Exhumation > Angleterre > Histoire.
Tombes > Pillage > Angleterre > Histoire.
Nationalisme et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Publishing.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Exhumation.
Grave robbing.
Historiography.
Nationalism and literature.
Great Britain > History > Political aspects.
Great Britain > History > 1714-1837 > Historiography.
Great Britain > History > Victoria, 1837-1901 > Historiography.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > Aspect politique.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1714-1837 > Historiographie.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1837-1901 (Victoria) > Historiographie.
England.
Great Britain.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Corpse as Text
  • 2. Presumptive Readings: King John
  • 3. The Text in Neglect: Katherine de Valois
  • 4. Appropriated Meanings: Thomas Becket
  • 5. Fictions and Fantasies: Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
  • 6. Investigations and Revisions: Katherine Parr
  • 7.A Surfeit of Interpretations: William Shakespeare
  • 8. The Conversant Dead: Charles I and Oliver Cromwell.

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