Ghost Complaint: Historiography, Gender, and the Return of the Dead in Elizabethan Literature

In this study, I read Elizabethan ghost complaint poetry as a locus for understanding the eras obsessive desire to speak with, for, and as the dead. In charting the rise to popularity of this now neglected poetic form, I employ and advance theories of haunting temporality as articulated in modern as...

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Main Author:	Jellerson, Donald C
Other Authors:	Peter Lake
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Language:	en
Published:	VANDERBILT 2009
Subjects:	English
Online Access:	http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu//available/etd-07152009-131430/

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Ghost Complaint: Historiography, Gender, and the Return of the Dead in Elizabethan Literature

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