Distracted Subjects : Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture /

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In the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobility and heterogeneity of discourses of "distraction," the most common term for the condition in late-sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Distracted Subjects shows how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Neely, Carol Thomas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Drama.
Gender identity.
Health attitudes.
Literature and mental illness > England.
Medicine in literature.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Mental illness in literature.
Mental illness > England > History > 16th century.
Mental illness > England > History > 17th century.
Mentally ill in literature.
Psychoanalysis and literature > England.
Sex role in literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
  • INTRODUCTION: Divisions in the Discourses of Distraction
  • CHAPTER 1. Initiating Madness Onstage: Gammer Gurton's Needle and The Spanish Tragedy
  • CHAPTER 2. Reading the Language of Distraction: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear
  • CHAPTER 3. Diagnosing Women's Melancholy: Case Histories and the Jailer's Daughter's Cure in The Two Noble Kinsmen
  • CHAPTER 4· Destabilizing Lovesickness, Gender, and Sexuality:Twelfth Night and As You Like It
  • CHAPTER 5. Confining Madmen and Transgressing Boundaries:The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night
  • CHAPTER 6. Rethinking Confinement in Early Modern England: The Place of Bedlam in History and Drama
  • EPILOGUE: Then and Now
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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