Heidi Breuer

Crafting the Witch

Gendering Magic in Medieval and Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures occurring in Arthurian romance in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. This work explores both the literary and the social motivations for this transformation, seeking an answer to the question, 'why did the witch become wicked?'

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How did the witch become wicked? This is the central question of Crafting the Witch, which documents and analyzes the gendered transformation of magical figures that occurred in Arthurian romance as it developed from its earliest continental manifestations in the twelfth century to its flowering in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415977616
• ISBN-10: 0415977614
• Artikelnr.: 22251417

Autorenporträt

Heidi Breuer is Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: "Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?": An Introduction to
Medieval and Early Modern Magic
Chapter Two: Gender-Blending: Transformative Power in Twelfth- and
Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Literature
Chapter Three: From Rags to Riches, Or the Step-Mother's Revenge:
Transformative Power in Late Medieval Arthurian Romances
Chapter Four: The Lady is a Hag: Three Writers and the Transformation of
Magic in Sixteenth-Century England
Chapter Five: Hags on Film: Contemporary Echoes of the Early Modern Wicked
Witch
Notes
Bibliography
Index