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000737154 1001_ $$aPedersen, Tara E.,$$eauthor.
000737154 24510 $$aMermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England$$h[electronic resource] /$$cby Tara E. Pedersen.
000737154 264_1 $$aFarnham, Surrey, England :$$bAshgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company,$$c[2015]
000737154 264_4 $$c©2015
000737154 300__ $$a1 online resource (166 pages) :$$billustrations
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000737154 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000737154 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Identifying mermaids: economies of representation in Dekker and Middleton's The roaring girl -- "We shall discover our selves": practicing the mermaid's law in Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure -- Perfect pictures: the mermaid's half-theater and the anti-theatrical debates in Book III of Spenser's The faerie queene -- Reading like a mermaid: Antony and Cleopatra's (un)mysterious history and the case of the disappearing snake -- Afterword: "drown'd O, where?": the mermaid and the map in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
000737154 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000737154 520__ $$a"We no longer ascribe the term 'mermaid' to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid's image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid's existence. This, author Tara Pedersen argues, makes it difficult for contemporary scholars to consider the mermaid as a figure who wields much social significance. During the early modern period, however, this was not the case, and Pedersen illustrates the complicated category distinctions that the mermaid inhabits and challenges in 16th-and 17th-century England. Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, this study furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized and seldom acknowledged representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. While individuals in early modern England were under pressure to conform to seemingly monolithic ideals about the natural order, there were also significant challenges to this order. Pedersen uses the figure of the mermaid to rethink some of these challenges, for the mermaid often appears in surprising places; she is situated at the nexus of historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel. Although these topics of inquiry are not new, Pedersen argues that the mermaid provides a new lens through which to look at these subjects and also helps scholars think about the present moment, methodologies of reading, and many category distinctions that are important to contemporary scholarly debates" --$$cProvided by publisher.
000737154 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record.
000737154 650_0 $$aWomen in literature.
000737154 650_0 $$aEnglish drama$$y17th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000737154 650_0 $$aEnglish drama$$yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600$$xHistory and criticism.
000737154 650_0 $$aMermaids in literature.
000737154 650_0 $$aSex role in literature.
000737154 650_0 $$aSocial values in literature.
000737154 650_0 $$aSex role$$zEngland$$xHistory.
000737154 650_0 $$aWomen and literature$$zEngland$$xHistory.
000737154 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aPedersen, Tara E.$$tMermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England.$$dFarnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]$$z9781472440013$$w(DLC) 201403136
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