The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations
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The witch in history : early modern and twentieth-century representations
Routledge, 1996
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer
'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 The Histories of Witchcraft
- Chapter 1 A Holocaust of One's Own
- Chapter 2 At Play in the Fields of the Past
- Chapter 3 The Witch in the Hands of Historians
- Part 2 Early Modern Women's Stories of Witchcraft
- Chapter 4 The House, the Body, the Child
- Chapter 5 No Limit
- Chapter 6 Self-Fashioning by Women
- Part 3 Witches on Stage
- Chapter 7 Elizabethan Stagings
- Chapter 8 The All-Singing, All-Dancing Plays of The Jacobean Witch-Vogue
- Chapter 9 Testimony and Truth
- Chapter 10 The Witch on the Margins of 'race'
- Conclusion
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