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In Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage, Katherine Walker focuses on embodied experiences in the theater and the debates within the sciences that eventually fell out of favor but interlaced "gut feelings" with observational practice. She examines understudied occult sciences, looking to genres such as almanacs, witchcraft pamphlets and demonologies. As Walker argues, the early modern discourse of instinct registers shifting appraisals of the body's role in making new knowledge. Unlike reason, instinct allowed anyone—a witch, an animal or a queen—to interpret a complex, animate environment. This knowledge was not only a seductive idea, but also opened up a range of debates on the limits of human cognition, the rights of marginalised individuals to offer new understanding, and the contours of what we can know about the environment.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Series Editors' Preface
Introduction: Innate Instincts, Embodied Knowledge
1. Instinctive Cunning: Divination and Dreams in Wise Women Comedies
2. Let Dog be Dog: Animal Instincts, Witchcraft, and Exorcising the Creaturely
3. Dekker and Jonson's Contagious Criminality
4. Sidereal Revision in All's Well That Ends Well
5. The Devil's Apprentice: Clowns and Demonology in Doctor Faustus
6. Instinctive Angels and Infinity in Antony and Cleopatra
Coda
Bibliography
Index
