Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England

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  2. English
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Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England

About this book

This volume explores practices of secrecy and surveillance in medieval and early modern England. The ten contributions by Swiss and international scholars (including Paul Strohm, Sylvia Tomasch, Karma Lochrie, and Richard Wilson) address in particular the intersections of secrecy and surveillance with gender and identity, public and private spheres, religious practices, and power structures. Covering a wide range of English literary texts from Old English riddles to medieval romances, the Book of Margery Kempe, and the plays and poems of Shakespeare, these essays seek to contribute to our understanding of the practices of secrecy, exclusion, and disclosure as well as to the much-needed historicisation of Surveillance Studies called for in the opening article by Sylvia Tomasch.---

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Table of contents

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Introduction: Secrecy and Surveillance in Medieval and Early Modern England (Annette Kern-Stähler and Nicole Nyffenegger)
  3. Surveillance/History (Sylvia Tomasch)
  4. Margery Kempe and the Counter-Surveillance of the Medieval Spectacle (Karma Lochrie)
  5. Secretly Sinful Mothers and the Surveillance of Women in Sir Gowther and The Awntyrs off Arthur (Kara M. Stone)
  6. The Pot, the Broom, and Other Humans: Concealing Material Objects in the Bern Riddles (Samuel Röösli)
  7. “Vnder Coloure I Dyuers Bokes Dyde Make”: “Obscure Allegory” in the Dream Poems of Stephen Hawes (Laurie Atkinson)
  8. “A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet”: Names and Secret Identities in Shakespeare’s Plays (Charlￃﾨne Cruxent)
  9. To Make the Fox Surveyor of the Fold: Foucault on Shakespeare, Sovereignty, and Surveillance (Richard Wilson)
  10. Gendered Secrecy in Shakespeare’s Lucrece (Aleida Auld)
  11. “As a Keeper Joined to Man”: Conscience and Early Modern Self-Surveillance (Paul Strohm)
  12. Notes on Editors
  13. Notes on Contributors
  14. Index