Tara E Pedersen

Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, author Tara Pedersen furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. This study positions the mermaid as a lens through which to reexamine historically specific debates about gender

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780367880279
• ISBN-10: 036788027X
• Artikelnr.: 58438559

Autorenporträt

Tara E. Pedersen is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

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 II 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.
Works cited.