Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance

"Analytical and personal, this book appeals to its readers' emotions even as it engages their critical intelligence. It also breathes new life into some of the older, but still crucial, conventions of literary history."--Ronald Levao, author ofRenaissance Minds and Their Fictions "Loaded with fresh and sometimes startling insights, and it is bracingly skeptical of reigning New Historicist certainties about the hegemonic Christianity of the English Renaissance."--Christopher Hodgkins,George Herbert JournalWatson, Robert N. is the author of 'Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance', published 1995 under ISBN 9780520084940 and ISBN 0520084942.