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In Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy examines the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period. By examining early modern funerary, liturgical, and lamentational practices, as well as diaries, poems and plays, she illustrates the consistent gendering of rival styles of grief in post-Reformation England. Phillippy calls on a wide range of published and archival material that date from the Reformation to the seventeenth century, providing a study that will appeal to cultural and literary historians.Read More

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    Patricia Phillippy examines the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period. Using funerary, liturgical, and lamentational practices; as well as diaries, poems and plays; she illustrates the consistent gendering of rival styles of grief in post-Reformation England. Phillippy utilizes a wide range of published and archival material dating from the Reformation to the seventeenth century, to provide a study of appeal to cultural and literary historians.

  • 0521814898
  • 9780521814898
  • Patricia Phillippy
  • 4 July 2002
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 324
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