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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 âbetwixt and betweenâ spaces of early modern literature and culture, through a focus on the perpetuated metamorphic states of Shakespeareâs and Spenserâs 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 âneitherâ and âbothâ brings to bear the non-normative disruption identified by queer theory in ways that use binary systems against themselves. For many of Spenserâs and Shakespeareâs characters, the âin-betweenâ state, whether ritually or otherwise induced, transforms the instantaneous binary threshold of the limen into a permanent âhabitationâ. This created sp

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 5/27/2024
      ISBN13: 9780367620882, 978-0367620882
      ISBN10: 036762088X
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      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 âbetwixt and betweenâ spaces of early modern literature and culture, through a focus on the perpetuated metamorphic states of Shakespeareâs and Spenserâs 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 âneitherâ and âbothâ brings to bear the non-normative disruption identified by queer theory in ways that use binary systems against themselves. For many of Spenserâs and Shakespeareâs characters, the âin-betweenâ state, whether ritually or otherwise induced, transforms the instantaneous binary threshold of the limen into a permanent âhabitationâ. This created sp

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