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Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a collection of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. The volume draws its impetus from the conviction that death is a central, yet curiously understudied, preoccupation for Spenser and Milton, contending that death - in all its early modern reformations and deformations - is an indispensable backdrop for any attempt to articulate the relationship between Spenser and Milton.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Towards Defining a Poetics of Death in Spenser and Milton; E.J.Bellamy, P.Cheney, & M.C.Schoenfeldt Spenser and the Death of the Queen; A.Hadfield Psychic Deadness in Allegory: Spenser's House of Mammon and Attacks on Linking; T.Krier Death in an Allegory; G.Teskey 'After the First Death, There is No Other': Spenser, Milton, and (Our) Death; R.Kuin and A.L.Prescott Anatomizing Death; L.Gregerson Reading Death and the Ethics of Enjoyment in Spenser and Milton; M.Grossman Sublime / Pauline: Denying Death in Paradise Lost; R.Trubowitz Imagining the Death of the King: Milton, Charles I, and Anamorphic Art; L.L. Knoppers Milton's Nationalism and the Rights of Memory; P.Stevens Afterword: Lastly Death; D.L.Miller Bibliography Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK and visiting Professor at Columbia University, USA
THERESA KRIER Teaches at the University of Notre Dame, USA
GORDON TESKEY Teaches at Harvard University, USA
ANNE LAKE PRESCOTT Teaches at Barnard and Columbia, USA
ROGER KUIN Professor of English Literature at York University in Toronto, Canada
LINDA GREGORSON Teaches at the University of Michigan, USA
MARSHALL GROSSMAN Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA
RACHEL TRUBOWITZ Associate Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
LAURA L. KNOPPERS Professor of English and Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, USA
PAUL STEVENS Professor of English at Queen's University, Canada
DAVID LEE MILLER Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, USA
Zusammenfassung
Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a collection of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. The volume draws its impetus from the conviction that death is a central, yet curiously understudied, preoccupation for Spenser and Milton, contending that death - in all its early modern reformations and deformations - is an indispensable backdrop for any attempt to articulate the relationship between Spenser and Milton.
Zusatztext
'This... is a compelling and cutting-edge collection, replete with arguments that go to the heart of the cult and culture of death as depicted in the complex works of two major canonical authors, each corpus dissected with exquisite patience and expertise' - Professor Willy Maley, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow
Bericht
'This... is a compelling and cutting-edge collection, replete with arguments that go to the heart of the cult and culture of death as depicted in the complex works of two major canonical authors, each corpus dissected with exquisite patience and expertise' - Professor Willy Maley, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow
