Queering Early Modern Death in England

Figuration, Representation, and Matter

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

What does queer death have to do with early modern England? This collection interrogates the profoundly queer, strange, excessive, camp and uncanny dimensions of death in early modern English literary, theatrical, and material archives.Contributors provide new insights on death by using the analytic tools of queer theory, via non-binary analyses of gender, sexuality, humanity, nature, embodiment, and temporality. Turning queer analysis to questions of death allows it to be understood as non-dualist, non-linear, a-teleological, and fruitfully muddled. The essays illuminate early modern experiences before the ascendancy of Cartesian dualism occluded alternative understandings of death. They also speak to a present and a future where many received paradigms no longer hold. Key dramatic texts from the early modern period, including The Duchess of Malfi, The Alchemist, The Spanish Tragedy, The Winter’s Tale, Richard III, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, show the expansive possibilities of death and dying in a queer mode. Further essays consider queer dimensions of death in lyric poetry, animal husbandry, typology, and Shakespearean authorship. These approaches make clear why readers interested in queerness and death should immerse themselves in the cultural life of sixteenth and seventeenth century England.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:144 x 218 x 20 mm
Vikt:460 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350458642

Utforska kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lauren Shohet is Professor of English, Villanova University, USA.Christine Varnado is Associate Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA.

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresNotes on Contributors 1. Introduction: What's queer about early modern death?Christine Varnado (State University of New York-Buffalo, USA) and Lauren Shohet (Villanova University, USA) 2. (Un-)/Dead again: dying and undying in The Duchess of MalfiPenelope Meyers Usher (Barnard College, USA)3. John Donne and the queer wit of early modern death Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia, USA)4. How to laugh at death and why (or, “Pyramus and Thisbe” as suicidal camp)Drew Daniel (Johns Hopkins University, USA)5. Queer uses of disease, death, and other crises: a jugaad reading of The AlchemistTripthi Pillai (Coastal Carolina University, USA)6. “Some part of his funerals”: playing the part of the departed in Nicholas Udall’s Roister DoisterJoseph Kidney (Stanford University, USA)7. Surviving Richard IIIJames Y. Mulder (Bentley University, USA)8. Baited bulls and crammed capons: queer animal death in early modern England Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA)9. The Queerness of typology Lauren Shohet (Villanova University, USA) 10. Queering the death of the author: temporal multiplicity and Shakespeare’s literary authorshipWolfram Keller (Free University of Berlin, Germany)Afterword: “And is this the end?” “Oh, no, there is no end” Alice Dailey (Villanova University, USA)Index