Confessing Subjectivity: Power and Performative Agency in Early Modern Drama

This dissertation traces confessional speech as a performative mode of social subject formation in English dramatic texts and non-fiction accounts from the early modern period. I explore the confessional speeches that pervade these works to illuminate a self-reflexive sense of the inherent intersubj...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wanninger, Jane Miller
Other Authors: Lynn Enterline
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2012
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-11302012-151125/