The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations / Diane Purkiss.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: viii, 296 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415087619
- 9780415087612
- 133.4309
- BF1571. P87 1996
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| Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 133.4309 PUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A220316B |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. A Holocaust of one's own: the myth of the Burning Times -- 2. At play in the fields of the past: modern witches -- 3. The witch in the hands of historians: a tale of prejudice and fear -- 4. The house, the body, the child -- 5. No limit: the body of the witch -- 6. Self-fashioning by women: choosing to be a witch -- 7. Elizabethan stagings: the witch, the queen, class -- 8. The all-singing, all-dancing plays of the Jacobean witch-vogue: The Masque of Queens, Macbeth, The Witch -- 9. Testimony and truth: The witch of Edmonton and The Witches of Lancashire -- 10. The witch on the margins of 'race': Sycorax and Others -- Conclusion: bread into gingerbread and the price of transformation -- Index.
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