Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550–1660 (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction: word and self estranged: topographies on meaning in early modern England, Philippa Kelly and L.E. Semler; Part 1 The Two-Way Mirror: the Natural and the Strange: Wittgenstein and early English dictionaries, 1604-1658, Julian Lamb; The ruins of Persepolis: grotesque perception in Thomas Herbert's Travels, L.E. Semler; Intimate converse with nature: body and touch in Harvey's way of inquiry, Alan Salter; Dipsas and traditions of the serpent-woman in early modern literature, Alison V. Scott. Part 2 Shakespeare's Estranged Words: Shakespeare and authenticity: teaching the real thing, Jean E. Howard; Estranging word and self in Twelfth Night, R.S. White; Desdemona's wooing: towards a pre-1538 Othello, Lawrence Warner; A mind diseased: reading Lady Macbeth's madness, Chris Couche. Part 3 Re-Sounding Words: Topographies of space, time and disciplinarity in early modern English: the case of Andrew Marvell, Bob Hodge; The text estranged: topographies of irony in Chaucer and Milton, Ronald Bedford; Sounds of elevation in Paradise Lost: God's commendation of Abdiel, William Walker; By the rivers of Babylon: Biblical allusion and the politics of pastoral in Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler, Kirsten Tranter; 'Transitory hieroglyphiques': deaf people and signed communication in early modern theories of language, Susannah Macready; Index.