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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 February 2023
      08 September 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108782975
      9781108479271
      9781108749565
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108782975
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 404 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 406 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
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    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, British History after 1450, History
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    The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.

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    ‘… this anthology offers a rich selection of Renaissance writings about dying, death and memorialization. … It is a formidable challenge to select from such proliferation, but the volume offers brief and allusive excerpts, with contextualized information that in many cases is longer than the excerpt itself.’

    Andrea Brady Source: Times Literary Supplement

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