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Zusatztext “This is an exceptionally learned and sophisticated piece of writing. … provides an impressive, even disorientating amount of data, and he ties this data into clear and persuasive arguments; there is a theoretical agility about the book, which is refreshing to lock minds with, and also an intellectual authority and intensity. … this is a book that repays close attention, and is something that can be learned from.” (The Shakespeare Institute Review, Vol. 1, June, 2012) Quoting Death adds an important element to our understanding by showing just how far the epitaph was adopted by the language and literary culture of the early modern period. . . . it offers a rewarding extension to religious and ritual culture of the time. - Joseph Sterrett, Cahiers Élisabéthains 'Quoting Death in Early Modern England is convincing about the significance of epitaphs in early modern texts... Yet the strength of the book is in its thorough and clear treatment of a subject less tangential than a reader may first suspect.' - Jack Heller, Appositions: Studies in Renaissance/Early Modern Literature& Culture 'This is a stimulating exploration of a neglected genre and Newstok is an adroit commentator on the emergence and circulation of the early modern epitaph.' - Peter J. Smith, Times Higher Education 'This lively and thought-provoking book...is an ambitious and largely successful study, encouraging us to understand not merely how Renaissance epitaphs transcended their traditional Christian commemorative functions, but how a variety of concerns with "epitaphic closure" were intimately related to an emergent idea of authorship itself. - Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement 'The very last part of the book . . . is liberated from notes, and the reader can clearly follow and appreciate Newstok's contentions. . . . he eloquently expresses all that one would seek of the nature and purpose of an epitaph. The book is attractivelybound and presented, with full references and an extensive bibliography.' - Rosemary Greentree, Parergon 'This superb study . . . builds towards particularly strong textually analytic chapters on drama and poetry. . . . This is impressively self-aware criticism. . . . The discussion achieves considerable scope, situating the epitaph in broader period debates concerning the veracity of verse, the efficacy and morality of rhetoric, and the early history of antiquarianism. This scrupulously detailed literary history of an increasingly recognised genre, coming in the same series as Andrea Brady's work on funeral elegy, helps gives the lie to Robert Musil's sense that "there is nothing in the world as invisible as monuments.' - Forum for Modern Language Studies Scott L. Newstok's Quoting Death in Early Modern England offers a compelling and well-researched study of the functions and myriad forms of epitaphs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. . . .This book deserves careful study, particularly by scholars of early modern memory and textuality, and specifically by those interested in the forms, rhetoric and afterlives of memorial texts in this period. . . . [an] intelligent and provocative study. -Michael Ullyot, Review of English Studies 'Newstok's study is bursting with ideas and insights . . . original and thought-provoking' - Elizabeth Heale, Mortality 'A summation of these points cannot do justice to the depth of this books insight and analysis . . . this study provides an important contribution not only to the understanding of epitaphs, but to the larger literary and social context to which they belong. In this sense, it is a valuable epitaph to epitaphs, recovering their many significations, even if the here to which they refer is somewhat indeterminate, if not gone altogether.' -Sarah Covington, Renaissance Quarterly 'At its best -and its best is very good - this is a book...
