Descript |
viii, 227 p. ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Intimate disciplines : archaeology, literary criticism, and the traces of the dead -- Exhumation and ethnic conflict : colonial archaeology from St Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland -- Dissolving images : monastic ruins in Elizabethan poetry -- Charnel knowledge open graves in Shakespeare and Donne -- "Mummy is become merchandise" : cannibals and commodities in the seventeenth century -- Readers of the lost urns : desire and disintegration in Thomas Browne's urn-burial. |
ISBN |
9780199206605 (hbk.) |
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0199206600 (hbk.) |
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