ISBN:
9781108782975
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (408 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.90942
Kurzfassung:
This critical anthology, an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and students, outlines the cultural contexts in which people grappled with their mortality in Renaissance England. Illuminating death's intersections with gender, sex, and race, this book offers indispensable insights into living with death in early modern England.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- A note on abbreviations -- A note on texts -- Introduction -- The Legacy of the Death Arts -- The Productive Ends of the Death Arts -- The Visual Proliferation of the Death Arts -- Representing the Death Arts -- Gendering Death -- Sexualizing Death -- Racializing Death -- Using this Anthology -- Part I Preparatory and Dying Arts -- Introduction to Part I -- I.1 William Caxton, To Know Well To Die (1490) -- I.2 Anonymous, The Calendar of Shepherds (1518) -- I.3 Thomas Lupset, The Way of Dying Well (1534) -- I.4 Katherine Parr, The Lamentation of a Sinner (1547) -- I.5 Anne Locke, 'A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner' (1560) -- I.6 John Bradford, A Fruitful Treatise … against the Fear of Death (1564) -- I.7 John Fisher, A Spiritual Consolation (1578) -- I.8 Robert Greene, The Repentance of Robert Greene (1592) -- I.9 William Perkins, A Salve For A Sick Man (1595) -- I.10 Dorothy Leigh, The Mother's Blessing (1616) -- I.11 George Wither, Selected Works (1628, 1635) -- I.12 Anonymous, 'The Unnatural Wife' (1628) -- I.13 Jane Owen, An Antidote against Purgatory (1634) -- I.14 Jeremy Taylor, Holy Dying (1651) -- I.15 John Batchiler, The Virgin's Pattern (1661) -- I.16 James Janeway, A Token for Children (1676) -- I.17 Samuel Smith, 'A True Account of … Last Dying Speeches' (1690) -- Part II Funereal and Commemorative Arts -- Introduction to Part II -- II.1 Edward Hall and Richard Grafton, Chronicles (1548) -- II.2 Thomas Cranmer, 'The Order for the Burial of the Dead' (1549) -- II.3 Church of England, The Primer Set Forth at Large (1559) -- II.4 John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (1576) -- II.5 William Allen, The Glorious Martyrdom of Twelve Priests (1582) -- II.6 John Philips, The Life and Death of Sir Philip Sidney (1587).
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