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Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft (Hardcover)
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Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft (Hardcover)
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Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is an exploration of
witchcraft in the literature of Britain and America from the 16th
and 17th centuries through to the present day. As well as the
themes of history and literature (politics and war, genre and
intertextuality), the book considers issues of national identity,
gender and sexuality, race and empire, and more. The complex
fascination with witchcraft through the ages is investigated, and
the importance of witches in the real world and in fiction is
analysed. The book begins with a chapter dedicated to the stories
and records of witchcraft in the Renaissance and up until the
English Civil War, such as the North Berwick witches and the work
of the 'Witch Finder Generall' Matthew Hopkins. The significance of
these accounts in shaping future literature is then presented
through the examination of extracts from key texts, such as
Shakespeare's Macbeth and Middleton's The Witch, among others. In
the second half of the book, the focus shifts to a consideration of
the Romantic rediscovery of Renaissance witchcraft in the
eighteenth century, and its further reinvention and continued
presence throughout the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first
centuries, including the establishment of witchcraft studies as a
subject in its own right, the impact of the First World War and end
of the British Empire on witchcraft fiction, the legacy of the
North Berwick, Hopkins and Salem witch trials, and the position of
witchcraft in culture, including filmic and televisual culture,
today. Equipped with an extensive list of primary and secondary
sources, Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft is essential reading
for all students of witchcraft in modern British and American
culture and early modern history and literature.
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