Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern English Imaginary : : The Performance of Difference / / Frederika Elizabeth Bain.
The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays to the elite practices of distributive burial. This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and p...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2020] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Late Tudor and Stuart Drama : Gender, Performance, and Material Culture
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 303 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Introduction: Attending to Bodies
- Chapter 1: The Symbolic Body and the Performance of Dismemberment
- Chapter 2: Gendered Dismemberments
- Chapter 3: Animals of Dismemberment
- Chapter 4: The Anguish of the Dismemberer: Executioners and Others
- Chapter 5: Coda: After Dismemberment
- Bibliography
- Index