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The personification of abstract qualities, virtues, places, art forms, and acts was a ubiquitous feature of the London Lord Mayors' Shows of the Jacobean period. This essay explores the political philosophies that the repeated use of these figures suggest, and argues that the textual descriptions of these events invite the reader to understand the process of signification itself as grounded in an objectivism guaranteed by political authority.

Maron's novel Die Überläuferin represents the disintegration and regeneration of an individual's sense of identity. The narrative traces the process by which its heroine breaks free from her conformist ways of thinking and acknowledges her most feared desires. Fantasy is depicted as a means for recognizing and discarding an authoritarian society's underlying utilitarian principles that can confine and paralyze an individual. The article analyzes the images of walls, death, and rebirth as well as the function of fantasy and memory to demonstrate the destabilizing and self-emancipatory effects of creative action. (SCA)

Examines the 1989 Tennessee Circuit Court decision in the Davis divorce case, which held that embryos are people, not property.

Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Atypical Bodies: Constructing (ab)normalcy in the Renaissance -- 2 Mobility Impairment: The Body Corporate, Charity, and Injury -- 3 Chronic Pain and Illness: Understanding Pain in the Renaissance -- 4 Blindness: Diverse Approaches to a Complex Phenomenon in the 15th and 16th Centuries -- 5 Deafness: Deafnesses and Silences in Shakespeare's England -- 6 Speech: Speaking Well and Ill in the Renaissance -- 7 Learning Difficulties: The Idiot and the Outsider in the Renaissance -- 8 Mental Health Issues: Madness in the Renaissance -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Imprint.