The Witch in History

Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations

Diane Purkiss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

1996
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-08761-2 (ISBN)

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Purkiss examines texts from colonial narratives to court masques to compose this study of the witch. Her narrative, goes far beyond the exploration of the figure of the witch to make an excellent contribution to early modern studies.

'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer

'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

Diane Purkiss is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading.

Introduction; Part 1 The Histories of Witchcraft; Chapter 1 A Holocaust of One’s Own; Chapter 2 At Play in the Fields of the Past; Chapter 3 The Witch in the Hands of Historians; Part 2 Early Modern Women’s Stories of Witchcraft; Chapter 4 The House, the Body, the Child; Chapter 5 No Limit; Chapter 6 Self-Fashioning by Women; Part 3 Witches on Stage; Chapter 7 Elizabethan Stagings; Chapter 8 The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue; Chapter 9 Testimony and Truth; Chapter 10 The Witch on the Margins of ‘race’; Conclusion;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.1996
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-08761-9 / 0415087619
ISBN-13	978-0-415-08761-2 / 9780415087612
Zustand	Neuware