Women, death, and literature in post-Reformation England

"In Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy studies the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in death and mourning during the early modern period. By examining early modern funerary, liturgical, and lamentational practices, as well as diaries, poems, and plays, she illustrates the consistent gendering of rival styles of grief in post-Reformation England. Phillippy calls on a wide range of published and archival material that dates from the Reformation to the seventeenth century, providing a study that will appeal to cultural and literary historians."--Jacket.