Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance

Book Overview

When we speak of the English Renaissance, what is it that we are naming, what are we recognizing reborn? As the essays in this latest collection from the English Institute demonstrate, our basic notions of the period have themselves been reconceived. In Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce, seven critics defamiliarize the images of the Renaissance to permit the repressed to return, to acknowledge the presence of the unassimilable ghost the mark...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801877385
• ISBN13: 9780801877384
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"