Gothic Renaissance (eBook, ePUB)

A reassessment
Redaktion: Bronfen, Elisabeth; Neumeier, Beate

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by experts in Renaissance and Gothic studies tracks the lines of connection between Gothic sensibilities and the discursive network of the Renaissance. The texts covered encompass poetry, epic narratives, ghost stories, prose dialogues, political pamphlets and Shakespeare's texts, read alongside those of other playwrights.

The authors show that the Gothic sensibility addresses subversive fantasies of transgression, be this in regard to gender (troubling stable notions of masculinity and femininity), in regard to social orders (challenging hegemonic, patriarchal or sovereign power), or in regard to disciplinary discourses (dictating what is deemed licit and what illicit or deviant). They relate these issues back to the early modern period as a moment of transition, in which categories of individual, gendered, racial and national identity began to emerge, and connect the religious and the pictorial turn within early modern textual production to a reassessment of Gothic culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111142
• Artikelnr.: 48795664

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich Beate Neumeier is Professor of English Studies at the University of Cologne

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Elisabeth Bronfen and Beate Neumeier Part I: Shakesperean
hauntings 1.Yorick's skull - John Drakakis 2. Beyond reason: Hamlet and
early modern stage ghosts - Catherine Belsey 3. 'What do I fear? myself?':
nightmares, conscience and the 'gothic' self in Richard III - Per Sivefors
4. Queen Margaret's haunting revenge: the gothic legacy of Shakespeare's
War of the Roses - Elisabeth Bronfen Part II: Renaissance theatre 5. Vision
and desire: fantastic Renaissance spectacles - Beate Neumeier 6. From
grotesque to gothic: Ben Jonson's Masque of Queenes - Lynn Meskill Part
III: Gothic textuality in the early modern period 7. Exhumations:
scopophobia in Renaissance texts - Duncan Salkeld 8. Bright hair and
brittle bones. Gothic affinities in metaphysical poetry - Ulrike Zimmermann
9. Vampirism in the bower of bliss - Garrett Sullivan 10. Ghostly
authorities and the British popular press - Andrea Brady Part IV:
Persistence of the gothic 11. Monstrous to our human reason. Minding the
gap In The Winter's Tale - Richard Wilson 12. Shakespeare, Ossian and the
problem of 'scottish gothic' - Dale Townshend 13. The rage of Caliban.
Dorian Gray and the gothic body - Andreas Höfele Index