03564oam 2200661I 450 991045067220332120200520144314.00-203-35972-01-134-88239-41-280-02087-30-203-37648-X10.4324/9780203359723 (CKB)1000000000410890(StDuBDS)AH3707435(SSID)ssj0000071340(PQKBManifestationID)11107050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000071340(PQKBWorkID)10090218(PQKB)10187078(MiAaPQ)EBC179374(Au-PeEL)EBL179374(CaPaEBR)ebr10100631(CaONFJC)MIL2087(OCoLC)54494773(OCoLC)560374583(EXLCZ)99100000000041089020180331d1996 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe witch in history early modern and twentieth-century representations /Diane PurkissLondon ;New York :Routledge,1996.1 online resource (viii, 296p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-415-08761-9 0-415-08762-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.'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 ... 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 SupplementWitchcraftHistoryWitchcraft in literatureHistoryWitchcraft in artHistoryElectronic books.WitchcraftHistory.Witchcraft in literatureHistory.Witchcraft in artHistory.133.4/3/09Purkiss Diane1961,948251MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450672203321The witch in history2143307UNINA