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Grief as Medicine for Grief: Complaint Poetry in Early Modern England, 1559-1609

Description:

This dissertation traces the meaning and scope of early modern complaint poetry. I argue that what I understand as a secular "poetics of dissatisfaction" arose to fill the void left when religious auricular confession was no longer an institutionalized practice, and that this mode of literary expression was itself shaped...

Keyword:

confession, early modern, juridical testimony, and complaint

Subject:

English

Creator:

Joanne Teresa Diaz

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/14/2018

Date Modified:

09/14/2018

Date Created:

2008-08-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation