Title: Quoting death in early modern England
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Death, Elegiac poetry, English literature, Epitaphs in literature, History, History and criticism, Intertextuality, Literature and history, Literature and society, Quotation in literature, Social aspects, Social aspects of Death, English literature, history and criticism, Death, social aspects, Elegiac poetry, history and criticism, Great britain, history, LITERARY CRITICISM, Shakespeare, Early modern
Places: England
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700
LC classification: PR428.D4 N49 2008