The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations /
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.
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| भाषा: | अंग्रेज़ी |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| ऑनलाइन पहुंच: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=98296 |
विषय - सूची:
- 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.