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Schwyzer, Philip.

Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature [electronic resource] / Philip Schwyzer. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - viii, 227 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-222) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Nat. Bib. No.: GBA685437 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Archaeology in literature.
Dead in literature.
Ruins in literature.
Antiquities in literature.
Exhumation.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR428.A74 / S35 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3552