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Laura Seymour - Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature

Av Laura Seymour

Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture

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Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century, examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Aleman and his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses in readers, and also draw on readers' bodily experiences to enrich their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to representations of resistance to behavioural norms.
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Laura Seymour is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Swansea University. She is PI of the collaborative project AMEND – Early Modern European Neurodivergence (2025-2030), funded by the Wellcome Trust. Laura is the author of Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature (2022), Shakespeare and Neurodiversity (2025) and Early Modern Neurodivergence (2026) and various articles and book chapters on neurodivergence and early modern literature.

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Seymour’s brilliant book exfoliates texts to show how the kinaesthetic experience of the characters can be written to evoke the reader’s kinaesthetic experience. Reading her reading makes us aware of the ways our body is involved in making meaning while we read. Her book is a model of how to incorporate research on embodied cognition into literary studies.

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