Rooted Sorrow: Dying in Early Modern EnglandFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994 - 296 pages This book is a literary and cultural study of death and dying through selected images, events, and words that intersect in expressive forms between 1590 and 1631. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Cultural Poetics and Notes on an Approach | 17 |
Skull Skeleton | 37 |
Copyright | |
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Angel appeared associations attitudes audience becomes body brought Christ Christian comfort context continuity conventions course critics culture death demons despair devil devotional Donne Donne's drama dying earlier early Elizabeth Elizabethan England English especially Essex evil example experience expression face faith fear figure final friends fully grief hand hope human important includes individual inspiration instance John judgment King Lady lament late later Lear literary literature living London loss major means metaphor mind moriendi mourning moves nature Othello paradoxical particular perhaps period play poems popular preparation present provides Queen reader religious Renaissance Richard ritual saints says scene scholars seems seen sense sermon seventeenth century Shakespeare's shows sins sixteenth soul structure suffering suggests symbolic temptation theme theological throughout tion tradition University Press visual woodcut York
References to this book
Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy No preview available - 2002 |