Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9780367880279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 166 str.

Tara E. Pedersen

Opis

Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, author Tara Pedersen furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. This study positions the mermaid as a lens through which to reexamine historically specific debates about gender

Spis treści

Identifying mermaids: economies of representation in Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl.  'We shall discover our selves': practicing the mermaid's law in Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure.  Perfect pictures: the mermaid's half-theater and the anti-theatrical debates in Book II of Spenser's The Faerie Queene.  Reading Like a mermaid: Antony and Cleopatra's (un)mysterious history and the case of the disappearing snake.  Afterword: 'Drown'd! O, where?': the mermaid and the map in Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Works cited.

O autorze

Tara E. Pedersen is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA.