| The Witch in History: Early Modern and Twentieth-Century Representations Contributor(s): Purkiss, Diane (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415087619 ISBN-13: 9780415087612 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: Throughout history the figure of the witch has embodied both male nightmare and female fantasy. While early modern women used belief and ritual to express and manage powerful feelings, the symbols and images surrounding the witch in the New World largely distorted the European views of Native American religions. In our own era, groups as diverse as women writers, academic historians and radical feminists have found in the witch a figure who justifies and defines their own identities. And there are many in the 1990s who still call themselves witches. br br From colonial narratives to court records and from Shakespeare to Sylvia Plath, b /b b i The Witch in History /i /b b /b shows how the witch has acted and continues to embody the fears, desires and fantasies of women and men. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Magick Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies - History |
| Dewey: 133.430 |
| LCCN: 96011316 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.34 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - New Age - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Diane Purkiss ... insists on taking witches seriously. Her refusal to write witch-believers off as unenlightened has produced some richly intelligent meditations on their -- and our -- world.' - The Observer 'An invigorating and challenging book ... sets many hares running.' - The Times Higher Education Supplement |