LEADER 04659oam 2200757I 450 001 9910787249603321 005 20231221130334.0 010 $a1-317-09721-1 010 $a1-317-09720-3 010 $a1-315-59504-4 010 $a1-4724-4002-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315595047 035 $a(CKB)3710000000291073 035 $a(EBL)1869310 035 $a(OCoLC)897070572 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001383101 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12593664 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001383101 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11474883 035 $a(PQKB)10479320 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1869310 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1869310 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011382 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL718551 035 $a(OCoLC)951830316 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000291073 100 $a20180706e20162015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England /$fTara Pedersen 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (166 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing. 311 $a1-322-87269-4 311 $a1-4724-4001-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Identifying mermaids: economies of representation in Dekker and Middleton's The roaring girl -- "We shall discover our selves": practicing the mermaid's law in Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure -- Perfect pictures: the mermaid's half-theater and the anti-theatrical debates in Book III of Spenser's The faerie queene -- Reading like a mermaid: Antony and Cleopatra's (un)mysterious history and the case of the disappearing snake -- Afterword: "drown'd O, where?": the mermaid and the map in Shakespeare's Hamlet. 330 $a"We no longer ascribe the term 'mermaid' to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid's image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid's existence. This, author Tara Pedersen argues, makes it difficult for contemporary scholars to consider the mermaid as a figure who wields much social significance. During the early modern period, however, this was not the case, and Pedersen illustrates the complicated category distinctions that the mermaid inhabits and challenges in 16th-and 17th-century England. Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, this study furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized and seldom acknowledged representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. While individuals in early modern England were under pressure to conform to seemingly monolithic ideals about the natural order, there were also significant challenges to this order. Pedersen uses the figure of the mermaid to rethink some of these challenges, for the mermaid often appears in surprising places; she is situated at the nexus of historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel. Although these topics of inquiry are not new, Pedersen argues that the mermaid provides a new lens through which to look at these subjects and also helps scholars think about the present moment, methodologies of reading, and many category distinctions that are important to contemporary scholarly debates" --$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aEnglish drama$y17th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMermaids in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aSocial values in literature 606 $aSex role$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMermaids in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aSocial values in literature. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory. 676 $a820.9/375 700 $aPedersen$b Tara E.$01540793 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787249603321 996 $aMermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England$93792631 997 $aUNINA