Jane Hwang Degenhardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1066388 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Hwang Degenhardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane Hwang |
| FAMILY NAME | Degenhardt |
| SIGNATURE | DEGENHARDT J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Between Worlds in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors
This article turns to Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (1594) in order to revise critical accounts of globalization and to propose a contrasting notion of “world” as a function of affective experience, collective narration, and virtual witnessing. Shakespeare’s play captures how a newly global imaginary was beginning to disrupt many of the foundations of personal identity and the familiar reference points of the worlds that sustained it. The Comedy…
Cracking the Mysteries of “China”
This essay explores early modern views of China as they were expressed through European representations of Chinese porcelain. Analyzing a range of artistic, printed, and dramatic texts, I show how sixteenth-and seventeenth-century western mythologies surrounding the production of chinaware offer a striking contrast to the more denigrating discourse of chinoiserie that developed in the eighteenth century. Focusing particularly on descriptions of c…
Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Massinger, conversion from Christianity to Islam is portrayed as both a fate worse than death and a sexual seduction. Degenhardt examines the stage's treatment of this intercourse of faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race, and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture
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Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage
In works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Massinger, conversion from Christianity to Islam is portrayed as both a fate worse than death and a sexual seduction. Degenhardt examines the stage's treatment of this intercourse of faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race, and confessional identity in early modern English drama and culture
Cracking the Mysteries of “China”
This essay explores early modern views of China as they were expressed through European representations of Chinese porcelain. Analyzing a range of artistic, printed, and dramatic texts, I show how sixteenth-and seventeenth-century western mythologies surrounding the production of chinaware offer a striking contrast to the more denigrating discourse of chinoiserie that developed in the eighteenth century. Focusing particularly on descriptions of c…
Between Worlds in Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors
This article turns to Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors (1594) in order to revise critical accounts of globalization and to propose a contrasting notion of “world” as a function of affective experience, collective narration, and virtual witnessing. Shakespeare’s play captures how a newly global imaginary was beginning to disrupt many of the foundations of personal identity and the familiar reference points of the worlds that sustained it. The Comedy…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · 1500-1600 (2 works) · Comedy (2 works) · Conversion in literature (2 works) · English drama (2 works) · English drama, early modern and elizabethan (2 works) · English drama, history and criticism, early modern and elizabethan (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)