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In the first book to provide a feminist analysis of early modern madness, Carol Thomas Neely reveals the mobility and heterogeneity of discourses of "distraction," the most common term for the condition in late-sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. __Distracted Subjects__ shows how changing ideas of madness that circulated through medical, dramatic, and political texts transformed and gendered subjectivities. Supernatural causation is denied, new diagnoses appear, and stage representations proliferate. Drama sometimes leads and sometimes follows other cultural discourses—or forges its own prophetic figures of distraction. __The Spanish Tragedy__ first links madness to masculine tragic self-representation, and __Hamlet__ invents a language to dramatize feminine somatic illness. Innovative women's melancholy is theorized in medical and witchcraft treatises and then elaborated in the extended portrait of the Jailer's Daughter's distraction in __The Two Noble Kinsmen__. Lovesickness, newly diagnosed in women, demands novel cures, and allows expressions of transgressive sexual desire in treatises and in plays such as As You Like It. The rituals of possession and exorcism, in

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Author

Neely· Carol Thomas·

Publisher

Cornell University Press·

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501729133

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Psychology, History