Witch in History Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations

Name: Witch in History Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations
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ISBN: 9780415087629

ISBN-10: 0415087627

ISBN-13: 9780415087629

Edition: 1996

Authors: Diane Purkiss

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Looking at texts from colonial narratives to court masques, trial records to folktales, and Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, this book shows how the witch acts as a carrier for fears, desires and fantasies both now and in the early modern period.

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/14/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 7.05" wide x 9.57" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Diane Purkiss is Fellow and Tutor in English at Keble College, Oxford.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



A Holocaust of one's own: the myth of the Burning Times



At play in the fields of the past: modern witches



The witch in the hands of historians: a tale of prejudice and fear



The house, the body, the child



No limit: the body of the witch



Self-fashioning by women: choosing to be a witch



Elizabethan stagings: the witch, the queen, class



The all-singing, all-dancing plays of the Jacobean witch-vogue: The Masque of Queens, Macbeth, The Witch



Testimony and truth: The witch of Edmonton and The Witches of Lancashire



The witch on the margins of 'race': Sycorax and Others


Conclusion: bread into gingerbread and the price of transformation


Index