Distracted Subjects

Name: Distracted Subjects
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801489242
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Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture

Автор: Carol Thomas Neely

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Издател: Cornell University Press

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In the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals...

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Автор

Carol Thomas Neely

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2004

страници

264

EAN

9780801489242

ISBN

0801489245

Enbook ID

04708050

Издател

Cornell University Press

Теглоt

414

Размери

157 x 237 x 17

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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 changing ideas of madness that circulated through medical, dramatic, and political texts transformed and gendered subjectivities. Supernatural causation is denied, new diagnoses appear, and stage representations proliferate. Drama sometimes leads and sometimes follows other cultural discourses--or forges its own prophetic figures of distraction. The Spanish Tragedy first links madness to masculine tragic self-representation and Hamlet invents a language to dramatize feminine somatic illness. Innovative women's melancholy is theorized in medical and witchcraft treatises and then elaborated in the extended portrait of the Jailer's Daughter's distraction in The Two Noble Kinsmen. Lovesickness, newly diagnosed in women, demands novel cures, and allows expressions of transgressive sexual desire in treatises and in plays such as As You Like It. The rituals of possession and exorcism, intensely debated off stage are mocked and exploited on stage in reiterated comic scenes of confinement that madden men to enhance women's power. Neely provides a startling challenge to the critically alluring analogy between Bedlam and the early modern stage by documenting that Bethlem hospital offered care, not spectacle. An epilogue shows how our own attitudes toward distraction are haunted by those earlier debates and representations.

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