Mother of Stories: An Elegy

A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.

Alice Dailey is Professor of English at Villanova University, where she specializes in late medieval and early modern literature, with a particular focus on drama and death studies. She is the author of The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution and How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol.