Mermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England /

"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 mer...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Pedersen, Tara E. (Údar)
Formáid: Leictreonach Ríomhleabhar
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Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015]
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Clár na nÁbhar:
  • Introduction
  • 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.