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Article: Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England, by Patricia Phillippy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002. xi, 311 pp. $60.00 US (cloth).
Patricia Phillippy's Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England is intended to respond to recent work studying early modern mourning and its gendering through the lens of psychoanalytical theory. Challenging recent studies by Juliana Schiesari and Lynn Enterline, Phillippy sets out to offer a corrective to a methodology which fails, as she puts it, to consider either the period's "gendered culture of grief" of "the cultured practices that suggest the period's discrimination between clearly ...