Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature
Author:   Philip Schwyzer (Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199206605


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 February 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Philip Schwyzer (Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.406kg
ISBN:  

9780199206605


ISBN 10:   0199206600
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   22 February 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction 1: Intimate Disciplines: Archaeology, Literary Criticism, and the Traces of the Dead 2: Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: Colonial Archaeology From St. Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland 3: Dissolving Images: Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry 4: Charnel Knowledge: Open Graves in Shakespeare and Donne 5: 'Mummy Is Become Merchandise': Cannibals and Commodities in the Seventeenth Century 6: Readers of the Lost Urns: Desire and Disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial

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accessible but provocative and never less than compelling. Lynsey McCulloch, Review of English Studies, Volume 58, Number 237


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Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture in the Department of English, University of Exeter. He is the author of Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 (Ashgate, 2004). His essays on archaeology, literature, and national identity in the early modern period and later have appeared in various journals.

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