English funerary elegy in the seventeenth century [Elektronisk resurs] Laws in mourning / Andrea Brady.

• 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.

• 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. -- The funerary elegy was one of the most common and distinguished poetic genres of the early modern period. Governed by convention, elegies also provided an occasion for poets - from famous laureates to private individuals - to negotiate with the laws of mourning, religious and social expectation, and political constraints. This book situates elegy's conventions with the rituals of rhetoric and mourning. Drawing on anthropology to analyze transitional rites, charisma, and the performance of grief, it offers new readings of famous poems, as well as little-known texts published in manuscript and popular print. It recontextualizes elegies commemorating heraldic funerals and public executions, to reveal how poets asserted their independence and unique status by manipulating the rituals designed to affirm consensus and the power of the state. Examining three famous executions of the 1640s, critical elegies for other poets, and poems mourning the death of children, Brady reveals the radical potentiality of the elegiac genre. This book provides new context for canonical elegies by Ben Jonson, John Donne, Henry King and John Milton among others, and introduces a provocative set of questions about the relationship between private experience and public morality, the body and creativity, and death and writing. 
• 'This is a scholarly examination of an important area of cultural history.' - The Use of English. 

Ämnesord

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.  (bicssc)

British & Irish history.  (bicssc)

Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.  (bicssc)

Social, group or collective psychology.  (bicssc)

Literary theory.  (bicssc)

Literature.  (eflch)

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