1st Edition
Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England
Identifying mermaids: economies of representation in Dekker and Middleton's The Roaring Girl. 'We shall discover our selves': practicing the mermaid's law in Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure. Perfect pictures: the mermaid's half-theater and the anti-theatrical debates in Book II of Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Reading Like a mermaid: Antony and Cleopatra's (un)mysterious history and the case of the disappearing snake. Afterword: 'Drown'd! O, where?': the mermaid and the map in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Works cited.
Biography
Tara E. Pedersen is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA.
'The figure of the mermaid is a wonderful gambit for enticing readers to consider a range of significant issues ... this study makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on early modern drama and the history of gender and sexuality.' Jenny C. Mann, Cornell University, USA, and author of Outlaw Rhetoric: Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England
"This book is well written, thoughtful, and interesting (…) It is recommended to readers interested in early modern English drama, women’s studies, and gender studies." – Carole M. Cusack, The University of Sydney
