Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance

Grief and Women Writers in the English Renaissance anatomizes the era''s powerful but troubling links between the forgettable dead and the living mourners who are implicated in the same oblivion. Four major women writers from 1570 to 1670 construct these difficult bonds between the spectral dead and the liminal mourner. Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, reinvents the controversial substit...