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Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture - Inhabiting Contested Thresholds (Hardcover)
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Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture - Inhabiting Contested Thresholds (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
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Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically
innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and
disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and
directed at, inhabitants of the 'betwixt and between' spaces of
early modern literature and culture, through a focus on the
perpetuated metamorphic states of Shakespeare's and Spenser's
liminal figures including Lavinia, Puck, and Britomart. With
chapters on gender, sexuality, adolescence, madness, and physical
disability, Kaye McLelland applies a bi-theoretical lens to
interrogate the ways in which being simultaneously 'neither' and
'both' brings to bear the non-normative disruption identified by
queer theory in ways that use binary systems against themselves.
For many of Spenser's and Shakespeare's characters, the
'in-between' state, whether ritually or otherwise induced,
transforms the instantaneous binary threshold of the limen into a
permanent 'habitation'. This created space is one of great power
that is feared and violently countered by those who would shut it
down. Set against the literary history of Spenser's and
Shakespeare's Ovidianism and festivity, and the historical context
of the post-Reformation transformation from a tertiary to a binary
model of the afterlife, this volume identifies a persistent
positioning of liminal literary figures in proximity to the
liminality of the dead and dying, whilst simultaneously tracing the
positive ways in which these inhabitants of the powerful 'betwixt
and between' are depicted.
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