The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations / Edition 1

The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations / Edition 1

by Diane Purkiss
ISBN-10:
0415087627
ISBN-13:
9780415087629
Pub. Date:
10/31/1996
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415087627
ISBN-13:
9780415087629
Pub. Date:
10/31/1996
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations / Edition 1

The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations / Edition 1

by Diane Purkiss
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Overview

'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer

'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415087629
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 10/31/1996
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 308
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Diane Purkiss is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Part 1 The Histories of Witchcraft; Chapter 1 A Holocaust of One’s Own; Chapter 2 At Play in the Fields of the Past; Chapter 3 The Witch in the Hands of Historians; Part 2 Early Modern Women’s Stories of Witchcraft; Chapter 4 The House, the Body, the Child; Chapter 5 No Limit; Chapter 6 Self-Fashioning by Women; Part 3 Witches on Stage; Chapter 7 Elizabethan Stagings; Chapter 8 The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue; Chapter 9 Testimony and Truth; Chapter 10 The Witch on the Margins of ‘race’; Conclusion;
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