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Author(s): Mary Floyd-Wilson
ISBN(s): 9781107036321, 1107036321
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.51 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1107036321 

ISBN 13: 9781107036321

Author: Mary Floyd-Wilson

In this ground-breaking study, Mary Floyd-Wilson argues that the early modern English believed their affections and behavior were influenced by hidden sympathies and antipathies that coursed through the natural world. These forces not only produced emotional relationships but they were also levers by which ordinary people supposed they could manipulate nature and produce new knowledge. Indeed, it was the invisibility of nature’s secrets―or occult qualities―that led to a privileging of experimentation, helping to displace a reliance on ancient theories. Floyd-Wilson demonstrates how Renaissance drama participates in natural philosophy’s production of epistemological boundaries by staging stories that assess the knowledge-making authority of women healers and experimenters. Focusing on Twelfth Night, Arden of Faversham, A Warning for Fair Women, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Changeling, and The Duchess of Malfi, Floyd-Wilson suggests that as experiential evidence gained scientific ground, women’s presumed intimacy with nature’s secrets was either diminished or demonized.

Occult Knowledge Science and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Women’s secrets and the status of evidence in All’s Well That Ends Well
Chapter 2 – Sympathetic contagion in Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women
Chapter 3 – “As secret as maidenhead”: magnetic wombs and the nature of attraction in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Chapter 4 – Tragic antipathies in The Changeling
Chapter 5 – “To think there’s power in potions”: experiment, sympathy, and the devil in The Duchess of Malfi

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