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INTRODUCTION, Karen WeismanHISTORY1. Ancient Greek Elegy, Gregory Nagy2. 'What's Love Got to Do With It?': The Peculiar Story of Elegy in Rome, Paul Allen Miller3. Lamentation and Lament in the Hebrew Bible, Edward L. Greenstein4. Late Roman Elegy, Michael Roberts5. Not What It Was: The World of Old English Elegy, Andy Orchard6. The Consolations of Philosophy: Later Medieval Elegy, Jamie Fumo7. Nation and History: The Emergence of the English Pastoral Elegy, William Watterson8. Classical Love Elegy in the Renaissance (and After), Gordon Braden9. The Funeral Elegy in Early Modern Britain: A Brief History, Lorna Clymer10. Elegies in Country Churchyards: The Prospect Poem In and Around the Eighteenth Century, Helen Deutsch11. New World Frontiers: The American Puritan Elegy, Jeffery Hammond12. American Constitutional Elegy, Max Cavitch13. Romantic Elegiac Hybridity, Stuart Curran14. The Dark Ecology of Elegy, Timothy Morton15. Victoria Dressed in Black: Poetry in An Elegiac Age, Erik Gray16. In the Tense of Decadence: Modernist Elegy and the Great War, Vincent Sherry17. 'Between the Bullet and the Lie': British Elegy Between the Wars, Patricia Rae18. Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins, Bonnie Costello19. 'That the People Might Live': Notes Toward a Study of Native American Elegy, Arnold Krupat20. Elegies Upon the Dying, Sandra Gilbert21. Attending to AIDS: Elegy's Rendez-Vous with Testimonial, Ross Chambers22. Kaddish: Jewish American Elegy Post -1945, Maeera Y. Shreiber23. The Contemporary Anti-Elegy, R. Clifton SpargoKNOWLEDGE, THEME AND PRACTICE24. Women's Elegy: Early Modern, Lauren Shohet25. 'Anguish No Cessation Knows': Elegy and the British Woman Poet, Anne K. Mellor26. Women's Elegies, 1834 - Present: Female Authorship and the Affective Politics of Grief, Anita Helle27. 'Lett me Not Pyne for Poverty': Maternal Elegy in Early Modern England, Lisa Schnell28. Between Men: Literary History and the Work of Mourning, Jonathan Goldberg29. Elegy in English Drama, 1590-1640, Jonathan Crewe30. Post Coitum Triste: Elegiac Sexuality in Drama, 1700-1800,, Catherine Burroughs31. Mourning Modernity: Classical Antiquity, Romantic Theory, and Elegiac Form, Thomas Pfau32. Elegy and the Gothic: The Common Grounds, Jerrold E. Hogle33. Moving Pictures at the Edge of Stasis: Elegy and the Elegiac in Film, Paul Coates34. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Poetry of Mourning,, Jahan Ramazani35. Museum Elegies, Eric Gidal36. The War Memorial as Elegy, Kirk Savage37. Grieving Images: Elegy and the Visual Arts, Elizabeth Helsinger38. On Photographic Elegy, Josh Ellenbogen