Distracted subjects : madness and gender in Shakespeare and early modern culture / Carol Thomas Neely
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TextoDetalles de publicación: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, cop. 2004 Descripción: XIII, 244 p. : il. ; 24 cmISBN: 0-8014-8924-5Tema(s): Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Crítica e interpretación | Enfermedades mentales en la literatura | Rol sexual en la literaturaResumen: 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.
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| Monografías | 06. BIBLIOTECA HUMANIDADES | 820.09/NEE/dis (Navegar estantería(Abre debajo)) | Texto completo | Disponible Ubicación en estantería | Bibliomaps® | 3742929499 |
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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.
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