03168nam 2200685 a 450 991045215030332120200520144314.01-281-14894-697866111489420-19-152572-31-4294-9283-X(CKB)1000000000476630(EBL)415093(OCoLC)476239938(SSID)ssj0000105139(PQKBManifestationID)11133656(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105139(PQKBWorkID)10086840(PQKB)11541804(MiAaPQ)EBC415093(Au-PeEL)EBL415093(CaPaEBR)ebr10271665(CaONFJC)MIL114894(EXLCZ)99100000000047663020061030d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArchaeologies of English Renaissance literature[electronic resource] /Philip SchwyzerOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-920660-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-222) and index.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.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. - ;This study draws on the theory and practice of archaeology to develop a new perspective on the literature of the Renaissance. Philip Schwyzer explores the fascination with images of excavation, exhumation, and ruin that runs through literary teEnglish literatureEarly modern, 1500-1700History and criticismArchaeology in literatureDead in literatureRuins in literatureAntiquities in literatureExhumationElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Archaeology in literature.Dead in literature.Ruins in literature.Antiquities in literature.Exhumation.820.9/3552Schwyzer Philip916440MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452150303321Archaeologies of English Renaissance literature2054426UNINA