Quoting death in early modern England
Subtitle: the poetics of epitaphs beyond the tomb
By: Scott L. Newstok.
Series: Early modern literature in history
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780230203259
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Death -- Social aspects -- England -- History; Epitaphs in literature; Intertextuality; Quotation in literature; Literature and history -- England; Elegiac poetry -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- England -- History
Description: "An innovative study of the emergent Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. This book argues that the post-Reformation preoccupation with textual remembrance led to a remarkable proliferation of epitaphs beyond the putative tomb. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers have recited these texts within new contexts. This book modifies conventional genre studies by detailing the situatedness of quoted text - a compositional habit that became markedly prevalent with the continued expansion of printing and literacy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Reciting 'epitaph' and 'genre' in early modern England; title: "Here lies": pointing to the "graue forme"; title: "Turn thy tombe into a throne": Elizabeth I's death rehearsal; title: "In good stead of an epitaph": verifying history; title: "Killing rhetorick": the poetics of movere; title: "An theater of mortality": in sincerity, onstage; title: "Lapping-up of matter": epitaphic closure in elegies; title: "Epitaph" for epitaph.