Table of Contents

INTRODUCTIONKaren Weisman:
HISTORY
1: Gregory Nagy: Ancient Greek Elegy
2: Paul Allen Miller: 'What's Love Got to Do With It?': The Peculiar Story of Elegy in Rome
3: Edward L. Greenstein: Lamentation and Lament in the Hebrew Bible
4: Michael Roberts: Late Roman Elegy
5: Andy Orchard: Not What It Was: The World of Old English Elegy
6: Jamie Fumo: The Consolations of Philosophy: Later Medieval Elegy
7: William Watterson: Nation and History: The Emergence of the English Pastoral Elegy
8: Gordon Braden: Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After)
9: Lorna Clymer: The Funeral Elegy in Early Modern Britain: A Brief History
10: Helen Deutsch: Elegies in Country Churchyards: The Prospect Poem In and Around the Eighteenth Century
11: Jeffery Hammond: New World Frontiers: The American Puritan Elegy
12: Max Cavitch: American Constitutional Elegy
13: Stuart Curran: Romantic Elegiac Hybridity
14: Timothy Morton: The Dark Ecology of Elegy
15: Erik Gray: Victoria Dressed in Black: Poetry in An Elegiac Age
16: Vincent Sherry: In the Tense of Decadence: Modernist Elegy and the Great War
17: Patricia Rae: 'Between the Bullet and the Lie': British Elegy Between the Wars
18: Bonnie Costello: Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins
19: Arnold Krupat: 'That the People Might Live': Notes Toward a Study of Native American Elegy
20: Sandra Gilbert: Elegies Upon the Dying
21: Ross Chambers: Attending to AIDS: Elegy's Rendez-Vous with Testimonial
22: Maeera Y. Shreiber: Kaddish: Jewish American Elegy Post -1945
23: R. Clifton Spargo: The Contemporary Anti-Elegy
KNOWLEDGE, THEME AND PRACTICE
24: Lauren Shohet: Women's Elegy: Early Modern
25: Anne K. Mellor: 'Anguish No Cessation Knows': Elegy and the British Woman Poet
26: Anita Helle: Women's Elegies, 1834 - Present: Female Authorship and the Affective Politics of Grief
27: Lisa Schnell: 'Lett me Not Pyne for Poverty': Maternal Elegy in Early Modern England
28: Jonathan Goldberg: Between Men: Literary History and the Work of Mourning
29: Jonathan Crewe: Elegy in English Drama, 1590-1640
30: Catherine Burroughs: Post Coitum Triste: Elegiac Sexuality in Drama, 1700-1800,
31: Thomas Pfau: Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form
32: Jerrold E. Hogle: Elegy and the Gothic: The Common Grounds
33: Paul Coates: Moving Pictures at the Edge of Stasis: Elegy and the Elegiac in Film
34: Jahan Ramazani: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Poetry of Mourning,
35: Eric Gidal: Museum Elegies
36: Kirk Savage: The War Memorial as Elegy
37: Elizabeth Helsinger: Grieving Images: Elegy and the Visual Arts
38: Josh Ellenbogen: On Photographic Elegy

About the Author

Karen Weisman is Associate Professor of English and Associate of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions (University of Pennsylvania Press) and numerous articles and chapters on Romantic and post-Romantic poetry and culture. She is currently completing a study of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish elegy.

Reviews

Exploring the whole terrain from metrical variations in the elegiac couplet, cross-cultural or transatlantic transfigurations or the genre, through to elegiac representations in the visual arts including paintings and photographs, the volume gains exceptional academic breadth
*Miwa Saito, Notes and Queries*

The sheer historical breadth and generic scope of the Handbook invite the reader to draw links between fields.
*Sally Connolly, Times Literary Supplement*

[an] excellent volume ... In addition to providing the reader with a full and engaging history of how elegy works and might function, the volume also fulfills one of the primary objectives of Oxfords Handbook series: to offer pioneering scholarship in the subject addressed.
*Emma Mason, Literature and Theology*

a full and engaging history of how elegy works and might function. ... presents the general reader with a compass of different perspectives and subjects to which elegy speaks, as well as providing scholars with a valuable sourcebook of resources and references.
*Emma Mason, Literature and Theology*