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008 160901s2017 enka b 001 0 eng d
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035 $a(OCoLC)957532655
035 $a(NNC)12499169
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050 4 $aPN56.D4$bT66 2017
082 04 $a809.933548$223
100 1 $aTomaini, Thea,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe corpse as text :$bdisinterment and antiquarian enquiry, 1700-1900 /$cThea Tomaini.
264 1 $aWoodbridge, Suffolk :$bBoydell Press,$c2017.
300 $ax, 241 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aBetween 1700 and 1900, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were stereotyped, idealised, and held as a standard by which the present time could be measured. Various figures in politics, academia, and the church pointed to historical persons such as Henry VIII, Shakespeare, Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell as icons whose lives, deaths and corpses illustrated the victories of English Protestantism, the values of Monarchism (or Republicanism), and the superiority of the English culture and its language. In particular, the subject of disinterment (exhumation) attracted the attention of antiquaries. They constructed a comprehensive memory of the past by 'reading' corpses as documents describing an idealised past. These 'texts' accompanied and enhanced the traditional texts of chronicle, literature, and epitaph.
650 0 $aDeath in literature.
650 0 $aFuneral rites and ceremonies in literature.
650 0 $aExhumation$zEngland$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hPN56.D4$iT66 2017