Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England /

This book is a cultural study of the ways men and women in early modern England confronted, accommodated, and paid tribute to mortal life and certain death. Drawing on prose and poetry, painting and statuary, social practices and religious rites, William Engel reopens central questions about Renaiss...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Engel, William E., 1957-
Corporate Author:	Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1995 Amherst : ©1995 Amherst, Mass. : 1995 Amherst, Mass. : c1995 Amherst : [1995]
Series:	Massachusetts studies in early modern culture Massachusetts studies in early modern culture
Subjects:	1500-1700 16th century 17th century Early modern, 1500-1700 Geschichte 1260-1660 Geschichte 1500-1600 Geschichte 1590-1660 Arts, Renaissance Death in literature English literature > European influences English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism Funeral rites and ceremonies > England > History > 16th century Funeral rites and ceremonies > England > History > 17th century Melancholy in literature Memory in literature Attitude to Death > history Depression > in literature Funeral Rites > history Literature > English English literature English literature > Early modern Funeral rites and ceremonies History Manners and customs England > Social life and customs > 16th century England > Social life and customs > 17th century England Criticism, interpretation, etc

Table of Contents:

1. Construing the Trace of Memory: Giotto to Broadsides
2. Imagining the Shadow of Death: Miltron and Derrida
3. Embodying the Seed of Melancholy: Montaigne and Florio
4. Plotting the Passage of Death: Cervantes and Baudrillard
Interlude: Janus and The Ring
5. Transfiguring Hieroglyphics: Browne and Heidegger
1 Construing the Trace of Memory: Giotto to Broadsides
2. Imagining the Shadow of Death: Miltron and Derrida
3. Embodying the Seed of Melancholy: Montaigne and Florio
4. Plotting the Passage of Death: Cervantes and Baudrillard
Interlude: Janus and The Ring
5. Transfiguring Hieroglyphics: Browne and Heidegger.
1 Construing the trace of memory : Giotto to broadsides: Mnemonic emblems and the organization of pictorial space
Graphic itineraries and renaissance metaphorics
The place of melancholy in "The map of mortalitie"
2. Imagining the shadow of death : Milton and Derrida: Portraying death as the other
Recognizing representation's limits
The seed of death and metaphor's end
3. Embodying the seed of melancholy : Montaigne and Florio: The site of writing
The cite of memory
The sight of death
4. Plotting the passage of death : Cervantes and Baudrillard: Visual parables of frames and margins
Macabre reflection, ingenious reversal, and graphic inversion
Ludic and specular aspects of death unmasked
Interlude: Janus and the ring
5. Transfiguring hieroglyphics : Browne and Heidegger: Mystical designs and patterns of melancholy
Urn burial and Garden of Cyrus read as a memento mori diptych
Reviewing models of representing the unviewable.

Mapping mortality : the persistence of memory and melancholy in early modern England /

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