Marion Gibson

Possession, Puritanism and Print (eBook, PDF)

Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tells a story of injustice and passionate resistance to religious persecution in the last years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Through an analysis of a sensational series of demonic possessions and exorcisms, this book highlights the existence of controversies in print in the late Elizabethan period of the kind that would one day lead to civil war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317315643
• Artikelnr.: 43590980

Autorenporträt

Marion Wiliams

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 A Literary Geography of Exorcism: 'Farre from the Eye of Justice'
Chapter 2 'A Booke Declaring the Fearfull Vexation': Spreading the Word
Chapter 3 'Sinnful, Shamfull, Lying and Ridiculous': The Possession of William Sommers
Chapter 4 'Pare Thy Nails, Dad': Authority and Subversion in Possession Narratives
Chapter 5 Dialogicall Discourses and Summarie Answeres
Chapter 6 The Madman in the Wilderness