Reading the Lovesick Woman in Early Modern Literature
نام عام مواد
[Thesis]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Collins, Allison Brigid
نام ساير پديدآوران
Ciavolella, Massimo
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of California, Los Angeles
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2020
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
247
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of California, Los Angeles
امتياز متن
2020
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
In early modern Europe, love was not a feeling, but a physiological change in the body. In its extreme, love was lovesickness, a deadly disease. Love makes the patient a desiring subject who seeks to author his own experience. The disease raises the stakes: if he cannot fulfill his desire, he will die. Yet lovesickness decreases the subject's agency because sickness makes the patient an object to be "read" and diagnosed by outside authorities. This paradox of increased agency and decreased control is particularly fraught when the patient is a woman. My dissertation analyzes the representation of lovesick women in early modern literature. While scholars have claimed lovesickness empowers women, I argue that the disease highlights the potential for female agency, but ultimately subjects women to external interpretation and control.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
British & Irish literature
موضوع مستند نشده
Comparative literature
موضوع مستند نشده
Early Modern literature
موضوع مستند نشده
Italian literature
موضوع مستند نشده
Lovesick woman
موضوع مستند نشده
Medical humanities
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )