Addiction and Devotion in Early Modern England / / Rebecca Lemon.
Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns might c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 4 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Addiction in (Early) Modernity
- Chapter 1. Scholarly Addiction in Doctor Faustus
- Chapter 2. Addicted Love in Twelfth Night
- Chapter 3. Addicted Fellowship in Henry IV
- Chapter 4. Addiction and Possession in Othello
- Chapter 5. Addictive Pledging from Shakespeare and Jonson to Cavalier Verse
- Epilogue. Why Addiction?
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments