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UNINA9910785079703321 |
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Purkiss Diane <1961, > |
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The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations / / Diane Purkiss |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
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1-134-88238-6 |
0-203-35972-0 |
1-134-88239-4 |
1-280-02087-3 |
0-203-37648-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 296p.) |
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Witchcraft - History |
Witchcraft in literature - History |
Witchcraft in art - History |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part 1. The Histories of Witchcraft I. Popular Herstories 1. A Holocaust of One's Own: The Myth of the Burning Times 2. At Play in the Fields of the Past: Modern Witches 3. The Witch in the hands of Historians: a Tale of Prejudice and Fear Part 2. Early Modern Witches I. Women's Stories of Witchcraft 4. The House, the Body, the Child 5. No limit: the body of the witch 6. Agency: Witches' confessions and self-representation II. Witches on Stage 7. Elizabethan stagings: the witch, the queen, class 8. James I and the staging of witchcraft: plays of the witch-vogue: Macbeth, the Masque of Queens, The Witch 9. Testimony and Truth: `Real' witches in The Witch of Edmonton, The Late Lancashire Witches 10. The Witch on the margins of "race": Sycorax and others. |
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Looking at texts from colonial narratives to court masques, trial records to folktales, and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, this book shows how the witch acts as a carrier for fears, desires and fantasies both now and in the early modern period. |
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UNINA990008916100403321 |
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Beijing review |
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