Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-222) and index
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.
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