{"product_id":"the-house-of-death-9781421434889","title":"The House of Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1986. In The House of Death, Arnold Stein studies the ways in which English poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries imagined their own ends and wrote of the deaths of those they loved or wished to honor. Drawing on a wide range of texts in both poetry and prose, Stein examines the representations, images, and figurative meanings of death from antiquity to the Renaissance. A major premise of the book is that commonplaces, conventions, and the established rules for thinking about death did not prevent writers from discovering the distinctive in it. Eloquent readings of Raleigh, Donne, Herbert, and others capture the poets approaching their own death or confronting the death of others. Marvell's lines on the execution of Charles are paired with his treatment of the dead body of Cromwell; Henry King and John Donne both write of their late wives; Ben Jonson mourns the death of a first son and a first daughter. For purposes of comparison, the governing perspe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing the traditional method of extremely close reading, combined with a Freudian theory of consciousness, [Stein] offers us without apology elegant interpretations—patient, subtle, probing—of various essays on the art of dying.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Three Essays in Background\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: What Renaissance Poets Would Have Known\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Answers and Questions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Donne's Pictures of the Good Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Writing About One's Own Death\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Respice Finem\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Death in Earnest: \"Tichborne's Elegy\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Dying in Jest and Earnest: Raleigh\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Imagined Dyings: John Donne\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Entering the History of Death: George Herbert\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: \"The Plaudite, or End of Life\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: On the Death of Someone Else\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Lament, Praise, Consolation: Pain\/Difficulty, Ease\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: The Death of a Loved One: Personal and Public Expressions\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Episodes in the Progress of Death\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Expression\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Preliminary Views\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Thoughts and Images\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: Images of Reflection\u003cbr\u003eChapter 17: Reasoning by Resemblances\u003cbr\u003eChapter 18: Intricacies\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19: The End\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408134807895,"sku":"9781421434889","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421434889.jpg?v=1730501711","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-house-of-death-9781421434889","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}