{"product_id":"exorcism-and-its-texts-hilaire-kallendorf-9780802088178","title":"Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eExorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In \u003ci\u003eExorcism and Its Texts\u003c\/i\u003e, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonical classics like Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ben Jonson, and Lope de Vega, to obscure works by anonymous writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom comic and tragic drama to picaresque narrative and eight other genres, possession worked as a paradigm through which authors could convey extraordinary experience, including not only demonic possession but also madness or even murder. The devil was thought to be able to enter the bodily organs and infect memory, imagination, and reason. Some came to believe that possession was tied to enthusiasm, poetic frenzy, prophecy, and genius. Authors often drew upon sensational details of actual exorcisms. In some cases, such as in Shakespeare, curing the body (and the body politic) meant affirming cultural authority; in others, as with Zamora, it clearly meant subverting it. Drawing on the disciplines of literary theory and history, \u003ci\u003eExorcism and its Texts\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive study of this compelling topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hilaire Kallendorf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802088171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802088178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.38w x 1.24d","brand":"Hilaire Kallendorf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065134723327,"sku":"9780802088178","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb3df7b9-b28d-4c3d-8430-41c6d0f38e94.jpg?v=1768673223","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exorcism-and-its-texts-hilaire-kallendorf-9780802088178","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}