Heidi Breuer

Crafting the Witch

Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How did the witch become wicked? This is the central question of Crafting the Witch, which documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures that occurred in Arthurian romance as it developed from its earliest continental manifestations in the twelfth century to its flowering in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780415699570
• ISBN-10: 0415699576
• Artikelnr.: 34225569

Autorenporträt

Heidi Breuer teaches at California State University, San Marcos

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?": An Introduction to
Medieval and Early Modern Magic
Chapter Two: Gender-Blending: Transformative Power in Twelfth- and
Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Literature
Chapter Three: From Rags to Riches, Or the Step-Mother's Revenge:
Transformative Power in Late Medieval Arthurian Romances
Chapter Four: The Lady is a Hag: Three Writers and the Transformation of
Magic in Sixteenth-Century England
Chapter Five: Hags on Film: Contemporary Echoes of the Early Modern Wicked
Witch
Notes
Bibliography
Index