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Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain »

Authors: Hilaire Kallendorf
ISBN-13: 9780802088178, ISBN-10: 0802088171
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Hilaire Kallendorf

Hilaire Kallendorf is an assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University

Book Synopsis

Demonic possession during the early modern period is important to study, contends Kallendorf (Hispanic studies, Texas A&M U.), because the potential for such possession both threatened and enhanced the integrated notion of selfhood that is widely believed to have been a hallmark of the Renaissance. She explores the tensions about demonic possession and exorcism in fiction, drama, and poetry of the time, demonstrating how the theme could be adapted to a broad range of purposes, audience responses, cultural paradigms, and patterns of belief. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Acknowledgments
	Prologue: A Force Within: The Importance of Demonic Possession for Early Modern Studies
	A Paradigm of Theologemes for Literary Exorcism
	Introduction: The Morphology of Exorcism, or a Grammar of Possession in Spanish and English Literature, 1550-1700	3
1	Demoniacs in the Drama: Theatricalities of Comic Possession and the Exorcism of the Body Politic	17
2	Possessed Picaros and Satanic Satire	67
3	Romance, the Interlude, and Hagiographical Drama: The Humanization of Possession and Exorcism	97
4	Tragedy As the Absence or Failure of Exorcism	126
5	Self-Exorcism and the Rise of the Novel	157
	Conclusion: Liturgy in Literature, or Early Modern Literary Theory and the Christian Legitimate Marvellous	184
	Epilogue: Problematizing the Category of 'Demonic Possession'	200
	Notes	207
	Bibliography	265
	Index	307