This book analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral and religious developments in the period 1606-1660 and discusses the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton and early modern women's writing. Brady combines Literary Theory, social and cultural History, Psychology and Anthropology to produce exciting and original readings of neglected source material.

'This is a scholarly examination of an important area of cultural history.' - The Use of English

Autorentext
ANDREA BRADY teaches English Literature at Brunel University, London, UK. She is also a poet, has published widely on contemporary innovative poetry and runs the small press, Barque.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on Transcriptions Introduction The Ritual of Elegiac Rhetoric The Rhetoric of Grief The Funerary Ritual in its Ritual Context Spectacular Executions of the 1640s Contesting Wills in Critical Elegy Grief Without Measure Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index