Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance - edited by Marjorie Garber

Author: Edited by Marjorie Garber
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardcover
Edition: First edition, 1987
ISBN: 0801834058

Condition: Good second-hand condition. Hardcover without dust jacket, with light shelf wear, rubbing and minor marks to the boards and page edges. Pages appear clean and intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce: Estranging the Renaissance is a scholarly collection of essays from the English Institute, edited by Marjorie Garber. The volume explores how Renaissance literature represents strangeness, otherness, gender, alienation, power and cultural anxiety through readings of Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton and related early modern texts.

Essays include work by John Hollander, Patricia Parker, Stephen Orgel, Steven Mullaney, Janet Adelman, Marjorie Garber and Mary Nyquist. Subjects include Spenserian lyric, Shakespeare and cannibalism, maternal power in Macbeth, ghost writing, Milton’s Eve and the unstable boundaries of Renaissance identity.

About the Author:

Marjorie Garber is an American literary scholar and cultural critic, long associated with Harvard University. Her work often examines Shakespeare, gender, sexuality, cultural symbolism and the ways literary texts reveal deeper social anxieties. She has written and edited numerous works of literary criticism and cultural analysis.