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Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature

Early modern English literature abounds with archaeological images, from open graves to ruined monasteries. Schwyzer demonstrates that archaeology can shed light on literary texts including works by Spenser, Shakespeare, and Donne. The book also explores the kinship between two disciplines distinguished by their intimacy with the traces of past life.
Print Book, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
viii, 227 s. : illustrations
9780199206605, 0199206600
185258920
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