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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Farnham, Surrey, England :
Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.