Amy Wygant

Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France (eBook, ePUB)

Stages and Histories, 1553-1797

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Revealing the surprising trajectory of our contemporary obsession with magic, Amy Wygant here follows the figure of Medea, the great antique witch and child-murderess, through her appearances on the early modern French stage from La Péruse to Corneille to Cherubini, by way of medical treatises, visual images, cultural practices, and poetics. This cross-disciplinary study shows that Medea is our mirror, and her story is the story of cultural performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317098973
• Artikelnr.: 44991267

Autorenporträt

Amy Wygant teaches early modern French literature and culture at the University of Glasgow and publishes on tragedy, witchcraft, opera, and psychoanalysis. She is the editor of Seventeenth-Century French Studies and a co-founder of Women in French in Scotland (WIFIS).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Stages and Histories
Chapter 1 Glamour and its Discontents
Chapter 2 Medean Renaissance
Chapter 3 Of Glammatology
Chapter 4 The Question of Illusion
Chapter 5 Narcissus, and the Devils of Loudun
Chapter 6 The Magic of Modernity
Postscript