Mary Floyd Wilson

Occult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

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Produktbeschreibung

Mary Floyd-Wilson's groundbreaking study explores occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in six early modern plays.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781107036321
• ISBN-10: 1107036321
• Artikelnr.: 37800805

Autorenporträt

Mary Floyd-Wilson is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A recipient of a National Humanities Center Fellowship, she is the author of English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (2006) and the co-editor of Reading the Early Modern Passions: A Cultural History of Emotions (with Gail Kern Paster and Katherine Rowe, 2004) and Embodiment and Environment in Early Modern England (with Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, 2007). She has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary Renaissance, Early Modern Literary Studies and Shakespeare Studies, and has co-edited a special issue of Renaissance Drama.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: secret sympathies
1. Women's secrets and the status of evidence in All's Well That Ends Well
2. Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women
3. 'As secret as maidenhead': magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
4. Tragic antipathies in The Changeling
5. 'To think there's power in potions': experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi
Coda.