| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 253 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Costerus ; new ser., v. 156
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 156.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : staging gendered space -- Ch. 1. Divide and rule : the early modern gender system and private space -- Ch. 2. Difference that makes a difference : emergent gender systems -- Ch. 3. Observer observed : differentiation and the theatrical system -- Ch. 4. Posing manliness : work and space as paradigms of early modern masculinity -- Ch. 5. Aporias of masculinity : systemic interpenetration and systemic instability -- Ch. 6. Author of himself : masculinity, civility and the closure of the body -- Ch. 7. Leaky vessels : femininity, the humoral economy and systemic boundaries -- Ch. 8. Women's worlds : women in the public sphere : space, community, language -- Ch. 9. Redrawing the boundaries : emergent gender spaces on the stage -- Conclusion : the alteration in apparel : cross-dressing and the emergent gender system. |
| Summary |
Bodies and their Spaces: System, Crisis and Transformation in Early Modern Theatre explores the emergence of the distinctively modern "gender system" at the close of the early modern period. The book investigates shifts in the gendered spaces assigned to men and women in the "public" and "private" domains and their changing modes of interconnection; in concert with these social spaces it examines the emergence of biologically based notions of sex and a novel sense of individual subjectivity. These parallel and linked transformations converged in the development of a new gender system which mor. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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Theater and society -- England -- History.
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Theater and society. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: West-Pavlov, Russell, 1964- Bodies and their spaces. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006 9042016884 (OCoLC)63197218 |
| ISBN |
1423790901 (electronic book) |
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9781423790907 (electronic book) |
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9789401201551 |
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9401201552 |
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9042016884 (paperback) |
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9789042016880 (paperback) |
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