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Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance, 1550-1700

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance, 1550-1700

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Publisher's Synopsis

Taking Ovid's Metamorphoses as its starting point, this book analyses fantastic creatures including werewolves, bear-children and dragons in English literature from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. Susan Wiseman tracks the idea of transformation through classical, literary, sacred, physiological, folkloric and ethnographic texts. Under modern disciplinary protocols these areas of writing are kept apart, but this study shows that in the Renaissance they were woven together by shared resources, frames of knowledge and readers. Drawing on a rich collection of critical and historical studies and key philosophical texts including Descartes' Meditations, Wiseman outlines the importance of metamorphosis as a significant literary mode. Her examples range from canonical literature, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, to Thomas Browne on dragons, together with popular material, arguing that the seventeenth century is marked by concentration on the potential of the human, and the world, to change or be changed.

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Cambridge University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9781316507629
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 820.937
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 350g
Height: 230mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 15mm