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020			_z9781472440013 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020			_a9781472440020 (e-book)
035			_a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011382
035			_a(OCoLC)903973798
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050	1	4	_aPR635.W6 _bP43 2015eb
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100	1		_aPedersen, Tara E., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England / _cby Tara E. Pedersen.
264		1	_aFarnham, Surrey, England : _bAshgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_a1 online resource (166 pages) : _billustrations
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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 III 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.
520			_a"We no longer ascribe the term 'mermaid' to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid's image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid's existence. This, author Tara Pedersen argues, makes it difficult for contemporary scholars to consider the mermaid as a figure who wields much social significance. During the early modern period, however, this was not the case, and Pedersen illustrates the complicated category distinctions that the mermaid inhabits and challenges in 16th-and 17th-century England. Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, this study furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized and seldom acknowledged representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. While individuals in early modern England were under pressure to conform to seemingly monolithic ideals about the natural order, there were also significant challenges to this order. Pedersen uses the figure of the mermaid to rethink some of these challenges, for the mermaid often appears in surprising places; she is situated at the nexus of historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel. Although these topics of inquiry are not new, Pedersen argues that the mermaid provides a new lens through which to look at these subjects and also helps scholars think about the present moment, methodologies of reading, and many category distinctions that are important to contemporary scholarly debates" -- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aWomen in literature.
650		0	_aEnglish drama _y17th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish drama _yEarly modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aMermaids in literature.
650		0	_aSex role in literature.
650		0	_aSocial values in literature.
650		0	_aSex role _zEngland _xHistory.
650		0	_aWomen and literature _zEngland _xHistory.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aPedersen, Tara E. _tMermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England. _dFarnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2015] _z9781472440013 _w(DLC) 201403136
797	2		_aebrary.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=11011382 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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