Milk to Gall: Representations of Angry Women on Page and Stage

这个项目探讨了这样的问题：早期现代人如何感知女性的愤怒？它是起源于性别化的身体、个人的代理，还是被恶魔的外部干预所操纵？前两章将考察对愤怒、霍乱(与愤怒有关的幽默)和性别的医学概念化；然后是流行文化中对愤怒女性的刻板印象，重点放在小册子和戏剧中“驯服泼妇”的叙事。最后三章将分析莎士比亚、米德尔顿、海伍德、福特、德克尔和罗利以及女性剧作家卡里和西德尼·赫伯特的戏剧，从不同的性别角度比较女性愤怒的刻画。这些章节将考察愤怒的女性的戏剧性表现(包括愤怒/暴躁的女巫，女性愤怒的表演性，以及传染性情感障碍)，以获得关于幽默医学如何与围绕女性权力的话语相结合的更广泛的观点。该项目将把妖魔学、幽默学和性别研究联系起来，并加入一个跨历史的对话，讨论女性的身体是如何在父权话语中被书写的，以及如何反对的。它将为一个不断发展的领域做出及时而重要的贡献：情感史。

This project explores the questions: how did early-moderns perceive female anger? And did it originate in the gendered body, in personal agency, or could it be manipulated by the external intervention of demons? The first two chapters will examine medical conceptualisations of anger, choler (the humour linked to wrath) and gender; then stereotypes of angry women in popular culture, focusing on 'shrew-taming' narratives in pamphlets and plays. The final three chapters will analyse plays by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Ford, Dekker and Rowley, alongside female dramatists Cary and Sidney Herbert, comparing portrayals of female anger from different gendered perspectives. These chapters will examine dramatic representations of angry women (including the angry/choleric witch, the performativity of female anger, and contagious emotional disorder) to gain a wider view on how humoral medicine engages with discourse around female power. The project will link demonology, humoralism and gender studies, and join a transhistorical conversation about how women's bodies have been written within, and against, patriarchal discourse. It will make timely and important contributions to a growing field: the history of emotions.