Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton assembles a wide array of essays on the compelling topic of death in two monumental representatives of the early modern canon, Edmund Spenser and John Milton. No collection of essays on Spenser and Milton has, to date, been published. This volume draws its impetus from the conviction that death is a central, yet curiously understudied, preoccupation for Spenser and Milton, contending that death is an indispensable backdrop for any attempt to articulate the relationship between Spenser and Milton - and hence for any literary history of the early modern period itself. Each essay breaks new critical ground on death as a central theme in the work of both writers - in the final analysis, Spenser's and Milton's struggles to represent death will provide readers with rich new perspectives on the religious, cultural, ideological and psychic anxieties of early modernity itself.
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'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
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ELIZABETH JANE BELLAMY is Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, USA. She is the author of Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History and Affective Geneaolgies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the 'Jewish Question' after Auschwitz. She has published numerous articles on early modern literature and the relevance of psychoanalysis for cultural critique.
PATRICK CHENEY is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, USA. He is the author of Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career and Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood. He has co-edited Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age, Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, and European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity through the Renaissance. A past President of the International Spenser Society, he is now co-editing The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.
MICHAEL SCHOENFELDT is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, USA, and Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He is the author of Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert and Milton, and of published essays on Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herrick, Lanyer and Milton.
PATRICK CHENEY is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, USA. He is the author of Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary Career and Marlowe's Counterfeit Profession: Ovid, Spenser, Counter-Nationhood. He has co-edited Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age, Approaches to Teaching Shorter Elizabethan Poetry, and European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity through the Renaissance. A past President of the International Spenser Society, he is now co-editing The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser.
MICHAEL SCHOENFELDT is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, USA, and Director of the Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. He is the author of Prayer and Power: George Herbert and Renaissance Courtship, Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology and Inwardness in Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert and Milton, and of published essays on Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Herrick, Lanyer and Milton.
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In his groundbreaking study of changing Western attitudes towards death since antiquity, the social historian Philippe Aries has argued that death is not a fixed concept but rather a cultural construct reimagined through time. Read the first page
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