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Blood matters : studies in European literature and thought, 1400-1700

Title
Blood matters : studies in European literature and thought, 1400-1700 / edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp.
Publication
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Lander, Bonnie, 1977-
  • Decamp, Eleanor Sian, 1984-
Description
ix, 354 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-337) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp -- I. Circulation. Was the heart "dethroned"? : Harvey's discoveries and the politics of blood, heart, and circulation / Margaret Healy -- "The lake of my heart" : blood, containment, and the boundaries of the person in the writing of Dante and Catherine of Siena / Heather Webb -- Sorting Pistol's blood : social class and the circulation of character in Shakespeare's 2 Henry IV and Henry V / Katharine A. Craik -- II. Wounds. Mantled in blood : Shakespeare's bloodstains and early modern textile culture / Hester Lees-Jeffries -- Rethinking nosebleeds : gendering spontaneous bleedings in medieval and early modern medicine / Gabriella Zuccolin and Helen King -- Screaming bleeding trees : textual wounding and the epic tradition / Joe Moshenska -- III. Corruption. Corruption, generation, and the problem of Menstrua in early modern alchemy / Tara Nummedal -- Bloody students : youth, corruption, and discipline in the medieval classroom / Ben Parsons -- Blood, milk, poison : Romeo and Juliet's tragedy of "green" desire and corrupted blood / Bonnie Lander Johnson -- IV. Proof. "In every wound there is a bloody tongue" : cruentation in early modern literature and psychology / Lesel Dawson -- "In such abundance...that it fill a bason" : early modern bleeding bowls / Eleanor Decamp -- Macbeth and the Croxton Play of the sacrament : blood and belief in early English stagecraft / Elisabeth Dutton -- Simular proof, tragicomic turns, and Cymbeline's bloody cloth / Patricia Parker -- V. Signs and substance. Blood of the grape / Frances E. Dolan -- Blood on the butcher's knife : images of pig slaughter in late medieval illustrated calendars / Dolly Jørgensen -- Queer blood / Helen Barr.
Call Number
JFE 18-5003
ISBN
  • 9780812250213
  • 0812250214
LCCN
2017049245
OCLC
1004073235
Title
Blood matters : studies in European literature and thought, 1400-1700 / edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson and Eleanor Decamp.
Publisher
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-337) and index.
Added Author
Lander, Bonnie, 1977- editor.
Decamp, Eleanor Sian, 1984- editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-5003
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