Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9181-5 (ISBN)
Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Alemán and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers’ bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms.
Laura Seymour is Lecturer in English at The Queen’s College, Oxford. She researches neurodiversity, Shakespeare, and early modern literature. She is the author of Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (EUP, 2022) and Shakespeare and Neurodiversity (2024). Her work on neurodivergence, cognition, and early modern literature have appeared most recently in journals like Shakespeare, Renaissance Studies, Bunyan Studies, Marvell Studies, and Studies in English Literature as well as in edited volumes. With Professor Siân Grønlie, she founded and co-leads the project Neurodiversity at Oxford which aims to connect, celebrate, and empower Oxford University’s neurodiverse community of staff and students https://neurodiversityoxford.web.ox.ac.uk . Her current project, “New Understandings of Hamlet”, centers lived experience of neurodivergence, suicidal ideation, and mental illness in reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and is funded by the British Academy.
Acknowledgements Introduction: The Body At Play in Early Modern Texts
Chapter 1: Ungracious Grace: Proprioception and Staging Taste in Thomas Dekker’s If This Be Not a Good Play The Devil is In It The Devil Saying Grace: Folklore and Oxymoron A Gust of Wind that Fans the Fire: Monks Hotting Up Mistrusting the Self Conclusion
Chapter 2: Walking without God — (mis)learning through the gait in Mateo Alemán’s Guzmán de Alfarache (1599 and 1604) and James Mabbe’s The Rogue (1622) Guzmán’s Pedagogical Texts: God and the Beggar’s Book Conclusion: Against Learning – Guzmán and the Widow
Chapter 3: Plain Plasticity— Thomas Ellwood’s The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood (1714) Masculinity and Self-Shaping: A Simple Perspective? Conclusion
Chapter 4: Chaste and Silent – Again. Vitality and the bound and loosed body in I.T.’s Grim the Collier of Croydon; or, The Devil and His Dame (c.1600) Tyed Tongues Vitality: Outside of Language Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.07.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-9181-2 / 1474491812 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-9181-5 / 9781474491815 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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