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- Title
‘Large hands, wide eares, and piercing sights’: The ‘Discoveries’ of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Witch Pamplets.
- Authors
Bayman, Anna
- Abstract
This article sets the English witch pamphlets published under Elizabeth I and James I into the context of contemporary perceptions of and anxieties about cheap print. It looks at how these works could engage with a delicate and potentially controversial subject, arguing that some pamphlets established distinctive ways of talking about witches that challenged and destabilised more earnest and learned discourses. In these texts, the dialogue between credulity and scepticism became entangled with a debate about the propriety and responsibilities of pamphleteering, making a distinctive contribution to the ongoing negotiations over witch beliefs.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; PRINTING; PAMPHLETS; WITCH hunting; HISTORY of witchcraft; MASS hysteria; EARLY modern English literature; HISTORY of printing
- Publication
Literature & History, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
0306-1973
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/LH.16.1.2