Kaye McLelland

Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Inhabiting Contested Thresholds

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the 'betwixt and between' spaces of early modern literature and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000783827
• Artikelnr.: 66023156

Autorenporträt

Kaye McLelland completed her Ph.D. at University College London. Since gaining her doctorate, Kaye has been teaching at several universities including the University of Cambridge. She has had essays and articles published on disability and sexuality in Framing Premodern Desires (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017) and in the journal Early Modern Women. Kaye has recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Society for Renaissance Studies on the subject of early modern preaching and the body. This has resulted in the publication of 'Halting Jacob in Early Modern Sermons' in Renaissance Studies (2021) and several other forthcoming articles.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: 'I Wooed Thee With My Sword':
Violence and Liminal Sexuality in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Chapter 2: 'Hell's Pantomimicks':
Violence and Liminal Gender in the Festive and Everyday Worlds
Chapter 3: Liminality of Life Stage:
Education, Adolescence, and Corporal Punishment
Chapter 4: Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets:
Violence and Altered Mental States in Renaissance Life and Literature
Chapter 5: Halting to the Grave:
Disability and Liminal Space
Coda: The Final Threshold