Diane Purkiss

The Witch in History (eBook, ePUB)

Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134882380
• Artikelnr.: 38265120

Autorenporträt

Diane Purkiss is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 The Histories of Witchcraft
Chapter 1 A Holocaust of One's Own
Chapter 2 At Play in the Fields of the Past
Chapter 3 The Witch in the Hands of Historians
Part 2 Early Modern Women's Stories of Witchcraft
Chapter 4 The House, the Body, the Child
Chapter 5 No Limit
Chapter 6 Self-Fashioning by Women
Part 3 Witches on Stage
Chapter 7 Elizabethan Stagings
Chapter 8 The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue
Chapter 9 Testimony and Truth
Chapter 10 The Witch on the Margins of 'race'
Conclusion

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Introduction; Part 1 The Histories of Witchcraft; Chapter 1 A Holocaust of One's Own; Chapter 2 At Play in the Fields of the Past; Chapter 3 The Witch in the Hands of Historians; Part 2 Early Modern Women's Stories of Witchcraft; Chapter 4 The House, the Body, the Child; Chapter 5 No Limit; Chapter 6 Self-Fashioning by Women; Part 3 Witches on Stage; Chapter 7 Elizabethan Stagings; Chapter 8 The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue; Chapter 9 Testimony and Truth; Chapter 10 The Witch on the Margins of 'race'; Conclusion;

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'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer

'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer

'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement