ALANNA SKUSE
Biographic Data
| ID | 5786240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | ALANNA SKUSE |
| GIVEN NAMES | ALANNA |
| FAMILY NAME | SKUSE |
| SIGNATURE | SKUSE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5034-9786 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biting one’s tongue
When the protagonist Hieronimo bites out his own tongue in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, his actions seem to make little sense. After all, he has already explained the very plot which he claims to be keeping a secret through his self‐injury. However this article argues that Hieronimo's tongue‐biting taps into rich discourses about self‐injury, personal agency, stoicism and madness. I argue that self‐injury was related to suicide in its assert…
Unfixable Forms
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Noelle Gallagher, Itch, Clap, Pox
Noelle Gallagher, Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination Noelle Gallagher, Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. x+267. $65. ISBN 978-0-300-21705-6. Alanna Skuse Alanna Skuse University of Reading [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-9786 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google…
One Stroak of His Razour’
This article examines stories of men who gelded themselves in early modern England. These events, it argues, were shaped and partly motivated by a culture in which castration was seen as both degrading and potentially empowering. Religious precedents such as that of Origen of Alexandria framed self-gelding as a foolhardy activity, but one which nevertheless indicated an impressive degree of mastery over the body and its urges. Meanwhile, judicial…
Shakespeare’s Medical Language
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Wombs, Worms and Wolves
This essay examines medical and popular attitudes to cancer in the early modern period, c .1580-1720. Cancer, it is argued, was understood as a cruel and usually incurable disease, diagnosable by a well-defined set of symptoms understood to correspond to its etymological root, karkinos (the crab). It was primarily understood as produced by an imbalance of the humours, with women being particularly vulnerable. However, such explanations proved ina…
One Stroak of His Razour’
This article examines stories of men who gelded themselves in early modern England. These events, it argues, were shaped and partly motivated by a culture in which castration was seen as both degrading and potentially empowering. Religious precedents such as that of Origen of Alexandria framed self-gelding as a foolhardy activity, but one which nevertheless indicated an impressive degree of mastery over the body and its urges. Meanwhile, judicial…
Wombs, Worms and Wolves
This essay examines medical and popular attitudes to cancer in the early modern period, c .1580-1720. Cancer, it is argued, was understood as a cruel and usually incurable disease, diagnosable by a well-defined set of symptoms understood to correspond to its etymological root, karkinos (the crab). It was primarily understood as produced by an imbalance of the humours, with women being particularly vulnerable. However, such explanations proved ina…
Wombs, Worms and Wolves
This essay examines medical and popular attitudes to cancer in the early modern period, c .1580-1720. Cancer, it is argued, was understood as a cruel and usually incurable disease, diagnosable by a well-defined set of symptoms understood to correspond to its etymological root, karkinos (the crab). It was primarily understood as produced by an imbalance of the humours, with women being particularly vulnerable. However, such explanations proved ina…
Shakespeare’s Medical Language
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
One Stroak of His Razour’
This article examines stories of men who gelded themselves in early modern England. These events, it argues, were shaped and partly motivated by a culture in which castration was seen as both degrading and potentially empowering. Religious precedents such as that of Origen of Alexandria framed self-gelding as a foolhardy activity, but one which nevertheless indicated an impressive degree of mastery over the body and its urges. Meanwhile, judicial…
Noelle Gallagher, Itch, Clap, Pox
Noelle Gallagher, Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination Noelle Gallagher, Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. x+267. $65. ISBN 978-0-300-21705-6. Alanna Skuse Alanna Skuse University of Reading [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5034-9786 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google…
Biting one’s tongue
When the protagonist Hieronimo bites out his own tongue in Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, his actions seem to make little sense. After all, he has already explained the very plot which he claims to be keeping a secret through his self‐injury. However this article argues that Hieronimo's tongue‐biting taps into rich discourses about self‐injury, personal agency, stoicism and madness. I argue that self‐injury was related to suicide in its assert…
Unfixable Forms
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
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