Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture in the Department of English, University of Exeter. He is the author of Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 (Ashgate, 2004). His essays on archaeology, literature, and national identity in the early modern period and later have appeared in various journals.

accessible but provocative and never less than compelling.

• Introduction ; 1. Intimate Disciplines: Archaeology, Literary Criticism, and the Traces of the Dead ; 2. Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: Colonial Archaeology From St. Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland ; 3. Dissolving Images: Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry ; 4. Charnel Knowledge: Open Graves in Shakespeare and Donne ; 5. 'Mummy Is Become Merchandise': Cannibals and Commodities in the Seventeenth Century ; 6. Readers of the Lost Urns: Desire and Disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial

Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture in the Department of English, University of Exeter. He is the author of Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 (Ashgate, 2004). His essays on archaeology, literature, and national identity in the early modern period and later have appeared in various journals.

accessible but provocative and never less than compelling.

• Introduction ; 1. Intimate Disciplines: Archaeology, Literary Criticism, and the Traces of the Dead ; 2. Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: Colonial Archaeology From St. Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland ; 3. Dissolving Images: Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry ; 4. Charnel Knowledge: Open Graves in Shakespeare and Donne ; 5. 'Mummy Is Become Merchandise': Cannibals and Commodities in the Seventeenth Century ; 6. Readers of the Lost Urns: Desire and Disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial

Philip Schwyzer is Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture in the Department of English, University of Exeter. He is the author of Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge, 2004) and co-editor of Archipelagic Identities: Literature and Identity in the Atlantic Archipelago, 1550-1800 (Ashgate, 2004). His essays on archaeology, literature, and national identity in the early modern period and later have appeared in various journals.

accessible but provocative and never less than compelling.

• Introduction ; 1. Intimate Disciplines: Archaeology, Literary Criticism, and the Traces of the Dead ; 2. Exhumation and Ethnic Conflict: Colonial Archaeology From St. Erkenwald to Spenser in Ireland ; 3. Dissolving Images: Monastic Ruins in Elizabethan Poetry ; 4. Charnel Knowledge: Open Graves in Shakespeare and Donne ; 5. 'Mummy Is Become Merchandise': Cannibals and Commodities in the Seventeenth Century ; 6. Readers of the Lost Urns: Desire and Disintegration in Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial