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020 _a9781139567541 (ebook)
020 _z9781107036321 (hardback)
020 _z9781107559370 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aPR2965
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100 1 _aFloyd-Wilson, Mary,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aOccult Knowledge, Science, and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage / [electronic resource]
_cMary Floyd-Wilson.
246 3 _aOccult Knowledge, Science, & Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (250 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _aBelief in spirits, demons and the occult was commonplace in the early modern period, as was the view that these forces could be used to manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. In this groundbreaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson explores these beliefs in relation to women and scientific knowledge, arguing that the early modern English understood their emotions and behavior to be influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies in the natural world. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All's Well That Ends Well, The Changeling and The Duchess of Malfi, she demonstrates how these plays stage questions about whether women have privileged access to nature's secrets and whether their bodies possess hidden occult qualities. Discussing the relationship between scientific discourse and the occult, she goes on to argue that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women's presumed intimacy with nature's secrets was either diminished or demonized.
650 0 _aOccultism in literature
650 0 _aLiterature and spiritualism
650 0 _aWomen in literature
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107036321
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139567541
_zCambridge Books Online
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