The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Purkiss, Diane, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Temas:
Witchcraft > History.
Witchcraft in literature.
Witchcraft in art.
Witchcraft in literature > History.
Witchcraft in art > History.
Witchcraft > history
Sorcellerie > Histoire.
Sorcellerie dans la littérature > Histoire.
Sorcellerie dans l'art > Histoire.
Sorcellerie dans la littérature.
Sorcellerie dans l'art.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Magick Studies.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Witchcraft & Wicca.
Paranormal.
Witchcraft
Witchcraft in art
Witchcraft in literature
Geschichte
Hexe > Motiv
Hexe
Hexenglaube
Kunst
Literatur
Heksen.
Representatie (algemeen)
Witches
Witchraft in literature
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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