The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations / / Diane Purkiss
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| Autore: |
Purkiss Diane <1961, >
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| Titolo: |
The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations / / Diane Purkiss
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 296p.) |
| Disciplina: | 133.4/3/09 |
| Soggetto topico: | Witchcraft - History |
| Witchcraft in literature - History | |
| Witchcraft in art - History | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The witch in history |
| ISBN: | 1-134-88238-6 |
| 0-203-35972-0 | |
| 1-134-88239-4 | |
| 1-280-02087-3 | |
| 0-203-37648-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785079703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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