Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: I, McLelland Hardcover..

Name: Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: I, McLelland Hardcover..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the \u2018betwixt and between\u2019 spaces of early modern literature and culture, through a focus on the perpetuated metamorphic states of Shakespeare\u2019s and Spenser\u2019s liminal figures including Lavinia, Puck, and Britomart. With chapters on gender, sexuality, adolescence, madness, and physical disability, Kaye McLelland applies a bi-theoretical lens to interrogate the ways in which being simultaneously \u2018neither\u2019 and \u2018both\u2019 brings to bear the non-normative disruption identified by queer theory in ways that use binary systems against themselves. For many of Spenser\u2019s and Shakespeare\u2019s characters, the \u2018in-between\u2019 state, whether ritually or otherwise induced, transforms the instantaneous binary threshold of the li.