Speaking grief in English literary culture
Subtitle: Shakespeare to Milton
By: edited by Margo Swiss & David A. Kent.
Contributors: Swiss, Margo, 1946-; Kent, David A., 1948-
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Grief in literature.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; Loss (Psychology) in literature.; Death in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-355) and index.
Table of contents: title: Grief, authority and the resistance to consolation in Shakespeare -- Fred B. Tromly; title: Lyric grief in Donne and Jonson -- Robert C. Evans; title: Humourous grief -- Marjory E. Lange; title: Grief, theater and society in Thomas Heywood's A woman killed with kindness -- Michael McClintock; title: Action of grief in Herbert's The church" -- Louis L. Martz; title: Transendence of grief -- John T. Shawcross; title: Maternal elegies by Mary Carey, Lucy Hastings, Alice Thornton and Gertrude Thimelby -- Donna J. Long; title: Collins and the politics of mourning -- W. Scott Howard; title: Consolatory grief int he funeral sermons of Donne and Taylor -- P. G. Stanwood; title: Precious grief -- Phillip McCaffrey; title: Repairing androgony -- Margo Swiss.