Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England

ISBN-13: 9780521814898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 324 str.

Patricia Phillippy

Opis

Patricia Phillippy examines the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period. Using funerary, liturgical, and lamentational practices; as well as diaries, poems and plays; she illustrates the consistent gendering of rival styles of grief in post-Reformation England. Phillippy utilizes a wide range of published and archival material dating from the Reformation to the seventeenth century, to provide a study of appeal to cultural and literary historians.

Recenzje

"[Phillippy] excavates valuable and wide-ranging documents on women's involvement in death and dying, and carefully distinguishes between women's self-representations and other cultural constructions. Moreover, she maintains a carefully nuanced understanding of public and private roles often oversimplified in studies of early modern women's lives and works....Phillippy offers a valuable model for historicizing affect and provides an important service for literary critics and historians of the early modern period through her extensive archival research." H-WOMEN

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. A map of death; Part I. Disposing of the Body: 2. The body of history: embalming and historiography in Shakespeare's Henry VIII; 3. Humility and stoutness: the lives an deaths of Christian women; 4. London's mourning garment: maternity, mourning and succession in Shakespeare's Richard III; Part II. Sisters of Magdalene: 5. 'I might againe have been the sepulcure': maternal mourning and the encrypted corpse; 6. 'Quod licuit feci': Elizabeth Russell and the power of mourning; 7. The mat(t)er of death: the defense of Eve and the female Ars Morendi; Codicil: 'A web of blacke'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.