Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700
Author:   Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
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Author:   Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781316507629


ISBN 10:   1316507629
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Introduction: writing metamorphosis; 1. Classical transformation: turning Metamorphoses; 2. Sacred transformations: animal events; 3. Transforming nature: strange fish and monsters; 4. Metamorphosis and civility: werewolves in politics, print and parish; 5. Transformation rewritten? Extreme nurture, wild children; Coda: Descartes and the disciplines.

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Susan Wiseman is Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Conspiracy and Virtue: Women, Writing, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (2006), Politics and Drama in the English Civil War (1998) and Aphra Behn (1996; 2nd edition, 2007). She has co-edited The Nice Valour for Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works (2007).

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