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How To Remember Thee?: Problems Of Memorialization In English Writing, 1558-1625, Sean Flory
How To Remember Thee?: Problems Of Memorialization In English Writing, 1558-1625, Sean Flory
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation focuses on the use of funeral commemoration in religious and political controversies in early modern England. By examining the rhetoric used in funeral sermons and elegies, I show that commemorative writers use figural interpretation of the Bible to legitimize praise by linking the deceased to characters from scripture. Figural interpretation places the dead into a framework of ecclesiastical history and creates Protestant saints used as exempla in political and religious debates. This dissertation examines funeral sermons, elegies, and other commemorative poems written between 1558 and 1625. Chapter one discusses the development of figural interpretation in Elizabethan funeral sermons. …