Dismemberment in the Medieval and Early Modern English Imaginary: The Performance of Difference

by Frederika Elizabeth Bain

The medieval and early modern English imaginary encompasses a broad range of negative and positive dismemberments, from the castration anxieties of Turk plays to the elite practices of distributive burial. This study argues that representations and instances of bodily fragmentation illustrated and performed acts of exclusion and inclusion, detaching not only limbs from bodies but individuals from identity groups. Within this context it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501517864
• ISBN13: 9781501517860
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"