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The Witch in History Diane Purkiss

The Witch in History By Diane Purkiss

The Witch in History by Diane Purkiss

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Summary

Purkiss examines texts from colonial narratives to court masques to compose this study of the witch. Her narrative, goes far beyond the exploration of the figure of the witch to make an excellent contribution to early modern studies.

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The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss

'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

The Witch in History Reviews

'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

About Diane Purkiss

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;

Additional information

NPB9780415087612
9780415087612
0415087619
The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations by Diane Purkiss
Diane Purkiss
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1996-10-31
308
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