1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785079703321

Autore

Purkiss Diane <1961, >

Titolo

The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations / / Diane Purkiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-88238-6

0-203-35972-0

1-134-88239-4

1-280-02087-3

0-203-37648-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 296p.)

Disciplina

133.4/3/09

Soggetti

Witchcraft - History

Witchcraft in literature - History

Witchcraft in art - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008916100403321

Titolo

Beijing review

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Beijing, : [s.n.]

ISSN

1000-9140

Disciplina

950.05

951

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico