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BEWITCHED AND BEDEVILED Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Literature, Science, and a New Humanities Jonathan Gottschall Engaging Audiences Bruce McConachie The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois Ryan Schneider Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture Jill Stevenson Shakespearean Neuroplay Amy Cook Evolving Hamlet Angus Fletcher Cognition in the Globe Evelyn B. Tribble Toward a General Theory of Acting John Lutterbie Trusting Performance Naomi Rokotnitz Graphing Jane Austen Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John A. Johnson, and Daniel J. Kruger Theatre/Ecology/Cognition Teemu Paavolainen A Cognitive Approach to John Donne’ssSongs and Sonnets Michael A. Winkelman Bewitched and Bedeviled Kirsten C. Uszkalo Bewitched and Bedeviled A Cognitive Approach to Embodiment in Early English Possession Kirsten C. Uszkalo BEWITCHED AND BEDEVILED Copyright © Kirsten C. Uszkalo, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-51224-6 All rights reserved. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-70252-7 ISBN 978-1-137-49822-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137498229 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Uszkalo, Kirsten C., 1973– author. Bewitched and bedeviled : a cognitive approach to embodiment in early English possession / Kirsten C. Uszkalo. pages cm. — (Cognitive studies in literature and performance) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Demoniac possession—Pscyhological aspects. 2. Demoniac possession—England. 3. Cognitive neuroscience. I. Title. BF1555.U89 2015 133.4(cid:2)260942—dc23 2014047893 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: July 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Xavier Chance, who shows us, always, how extraordinary the ordinary embodiment of emotion is they are afraid they are bewitched, possessed, or poisoned by their enemies, and sometimes they suspect their nearest friends Robert Burton: A natomy of Melancholyy(1629), 387 That the Brain of this Woman was terribly affected, appears by her continued Madness, accompanied with want of sleep, boldness, immodesty and anger, and that her Heart and the rest of her Body suffered, was plain from her extraordinary heat. This Delirium is called Madness, and is a continued Commotion of the Mind with an Enraged Boldness, arising from the heat of the Spirits. Isbrand de Diemerbroeck: Anatomy of Human Bodiess(1689), 172 Contents List of Figuress xi Series Editors’ Prefacee xiii Acknowledgmentss xv Introduction: Grounding Rage Possession 1 Chapter 1 Early Diagnostics 19 Chapter 2 Contemporary Theories 47 Chapter 3 Embodied Spirituality | Embodied Cognition 59 Chapter 4 Performance | Contamination 85 Chapter 5 Reconciliation | Dispossession | Exorcism 133 Conclusion: Reproducing and Representing Demoniacs 169 Notes 177 Bibliographyy 225 Indexx 255
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