Response to Death: The Literary Work of Mourning

Response to Death presents a literary historical perspective on mourning, tracing examples of mourning in literary works from the medieval world to the present day. Contributors offer a chronological examination of the concept of the work of mourning in specific literary and historical contexts, beginning with an exploration of the medieval York Cycle of plays and sixteenth-century French women's lyric, and continuing through the Renaissance with considerations of Shakespeare, the nineteenth century, and into the twentieth century. Foreword by Jonathan Hart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888644213
• ISBN13: 9780888644213
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up