Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Carol Thomas Neely Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0801489245
Описание
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....
