This book analyzes the political, aesthetic, moral and religious developments in the period 1606-1660 and discusses the works of Donne, Jonson, Milton and early modern women's writing. Brady combines Literary Theory, social and cultural History, Psychology and Anthropology to produce exciting and original readings of neglected source material.

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'This is a scholarly examination of an important area of cultural history.' - The Use of English

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Brunel University, London, UK

Andrea Brady

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ANDREA BRADY teaches English Literature at Brunel University, London, UK. She is also a poet, has published widely on contemporary innovative poetry and runs the small press, Barque.

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Book Title: English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century
Book Subtitle: Laws in Mourning
Authors: Andrea Brady
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554870
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4105-3Published: 20 June 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-52038-1Published: 01 January 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-55487-0Published: 20 June 2006
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 265
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Personality and Social Psychology, Literary Theory, History of Early Modern Europe, British and Irish Literature

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