Quoting death in early modern England : the poetics of epitaphs beyond the tomb / Scott L. Newstok.
Published / Created:
New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
Physical Description:
xiv, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-220) and index.
Contents:
Reciting 'epitaph' and 'genre' in early modern England -- "Here lies": pointing to the "graue forme" -- "Turn thy tombe into a throne": Elizabeth I's death rehearsal -- "In good stead of an epitaph": verifying history -- "Killing rhetorick": the poetics of movere -- "An theater of mortality": in sincerity, onstage -- "Lapping-up of matter": epitaphic closure in elegies -- "Epitaph" for epitaph.
Subject Terms:
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. | Death -- Social aspects -- England -- History. | Epitaphs in literature. | Intertextuality. | Quotation in literature. | Literature and history -- England. | Elegiac poetry -- History and criticism. | Literature and society -- England -- History.