Death Arts in Renaissance England : A Critical Anthology

Engel, William E. (EDT); Loughnane, Rory (EDT); Williams, Grant (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1108479278 / ISBN 13: 9781108479271

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Codice articolo 44264088-n

Riassunto:

Expanding the 'death arts' beyond mere mourning and loss, this anthology recuperates the generative power of Renaissance mortality.

Informazioni sugli autori: William E. Engel is the Nick B. Williams Professor of Literature at the University of the South, Sewanee. He is the author of five books on literary history, memory studies and applied emblematics, including Mapping Mortality (1995), Death and Drama in Renaissance England (2002), and co-editor of The Memory Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2016). He is on the editorial board of Renaissance Quarterly and is the Renaissance Society of America's Discipline Representative for Emblems.

Rory Loughnane is Reader in Early Modern Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at University of Kent. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594 (Cambridge UP, 2020) and The Death Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge UP, 2022). He is a General Editor of The Oxford Marlowe, a General Editor of The Revels Plays series for Manchester UP, an Associate Editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare, and a Series Editor of Routledge's Studies in Early Modern Authorship and Cambridge's Shakespeare and Text. He was awarded the 2019 Charles and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for distinguished work in Marlowe studies.

Grant Williams is an Associate Professor of English at Carleton University. He has co-edited four collections: Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies (2004), Ars reminiscendi: Memory and Culture in the Renaissance (2009), Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature (2015), and The Memory Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge, 2016). He is currently working on an introduction to an edition of Henry Chettle's Kindheart's Dream and Piers Plainness and a SSHRC funded project to study 16th and 17th century emblematic title pages.

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Titolo: Death Arts in Renaissance England : A ...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Rilegato
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