UID:
almafu_9959689834002883
Format:
1 online resource (X, 303 p.)
ISBN:
9781501513237
Series Statement:
Late Tudor and Stuart Drama
Content:
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 performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, detaching not only limbs from bodies but individuals from identity groups. Within this context it examines questions of legitimate and illegitimate violence, showing that such distinctions largely rested upon particular acts’ assumed symbolic meanings. Specific chapters address ways dismemberments manifested gender, human versus animal nature, religious and ethnic identity, and social rank. The book concludes by examining the afterlives of body parts, including relics and specimens exhibited for entertainment and education, contextualized by discussion of the resurrection body and its promise of bodily reintegration. Grounded in dramatic works, the study also incorporates a variety of genres from midwifery manuals to broadside ballads.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Attending to Bodies --
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Chapter 1: The Symbolic Body and the Performance of Dismemberment --
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Chapter 2: Gendered Dismemberments --
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Chapter 3: Animals of Dismemberment --
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Chapter 4: The Anguish of the Dismemberer: Executioners and Others --
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Chapter 5: Coda: After Dismemberment --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501512957
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781501517860
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9781501513237
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513237
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501513237
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513237
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501513237
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