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Intersections of new historicism and contemporary theory in renaissance literature

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Harrington, Erin R.

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In this thesis, I use modern concepts of feminism, gender performativity, and psychoanalysis as a means to understand female characters and authors of Renaissance England in a new way. In my first article, I analyze various texts and performances of Queen Elizabeth I, as well as texts of Renaissance female...

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Britomart from Spenser's The Faerie Queene. In both pieces, I argue that these women (historical and
Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Creator:

Bromley, Michele Joy

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Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear in the medieval and early modern eras. Aristotle, as a precursor to the scientists and magical practitioners of the twelfth century or the barber-surgeons of the sixteenth century, understood monsters to be human or animal beings deformed by...

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-reflection and confession from terrified readers. This study explores the ways that Edmund Spenser uses