1st Edition
Medea, Magic, and Modernity in France Stages and Histories, 1553–1797
By Amy Wygant
Copyright 2007
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bringing together the previously disparate fields of historical witchcraft, reception history, poetics, and psychoanalysis, this innovative study shows how the glamour of the historical witch, a spell that she cast, was set on a course, over a span of three hundred years from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, to become a generally broadcast glamour of appearance. Something that a woman... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Stages and Histories; Chapter 1 Glamour and its Discontents; Chapter 2 Medean Renaissance; Chapter 3 Of Glammatology; Chapter 4 The Question of Illusion; Chapter 5 Narcissus, and the Devils of Loudun; Chapter 6 The Magic of Modernity; Postscript;
Biography
Amy Wygant teaches early modern French literature and culture at the University of Glasgow and publishes on tragedy, witchcraft, opera, and psychoanalysis. She is the editor of Seventeenth-Century French Studies and a co-founder of Women in French in Scotland (WIFIS).
’Wygant’s writing is lively and clever. She converses with a dizzying variety of critics and generously references the contributions of colleagues in the field. ...Wygant’s book is of prime importance for scholars and students of early modern French theater, witchcraft theory, and mythological adaptations, while her methodology will stimulate those engaged in psychoanalytical approaches to early modern literature and culture.’ H-France
