Rooted Sorrow: Dying in Early Modern EnglandThis 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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Common terms and phrases
allegory Angel Anglican art of dying attitudes biblical Christ Christian comfort commonplace Communion Communion of Saints context conventions culture damnation Dance of Death demons devil devotional tradition divine Donne's dramatic early seventeenth century elaborate elegy Elizabeth Elizabethan England English Essex evil example experience expression faith fear final friends God's grief heaven human imagery inspiration Jacobean John Donne King King Lear lament Last Judgment Lear literary literature London Macbeth Magdalen major medieval meditation mercy metaphor Milton modern moriendi moriendi tradition moriens mourning moves Othello Oxford paradoxical perhaps period Perkins play poems poetic popular prayer preacher Queen reader reconciliation redemptive religious Renaissance Richard Richard III ritual saints Satan scene scholars sense seventeenth century Shakespeare's audience Sicke sins sixteenth century sorrow soul spiritual structure suggests suicide symbolic temptation to despair theme theological thou tion University Press visual woodcut Zachary Boyd
References to this book
Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy No preview available - 2002 |