The Early Modern Medea: Medea in English Literature, 1558–1688

K. Heavey

Palgrave Macmillan UK, Mar 10, 2015 - Literary Criticism - 273 pages

This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide who exercised a powerful sway over literary and cultural imagination in the period 1558-1688. It encompasses poetry, prose and drama, and translation, tragedy, comedy and political writing.

About the author

Katherine Heavey is a Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. From 2010 to 2012, she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Newcastle University. She has published a number of articles on various aspects of early modern studies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Early Modern Medea: Medea in English Literature, 1558–1688; Early Modern Literature in History
• Author: K. Heavey
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015
• ISBN: 1137466340, 9781137466341
• Length: 273 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / General; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / General