Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in Medieval English Literature

Author / Editor
Rooney, Kenneth.

Title
Mortality and Imagination: The Life of the Dead in Medieval English Literature

Published
Turnhout: Brepols, 2011.

Physical Description
x, 304 pp.

Description
Explores the "literary negotiation of the macabre aesthetic in Middle English literature." Chapter 2, "The Progress of the Dead: From Body to Revenant," discusses "'physical' return of the dead" in BD and PrT.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Prioress and Her Tale