"The Duchess’ cabinet": Objets domestiques et construction de la personne dans La Duchesse d’Amalfi de John Webster
This article explores the meaning and the functions of objects, notably domestic objects, in The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the ways in which they serve a purpose of self-fashioning. It shows how the Duchess is taken between two conflicting economies and discourses of domestic culture over whic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/7861 |
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| Summary: | This article explores the meaning and the functions of objects, notably domestic objects, in The Duchess of Malfi. It focuses on the ways in which they serve a purpose of self-fashioning. It shows how the Duchess is taken between two conflicting economies and discourses of domestic culture over which she is ultimately unable to hold sway. Though the Duchess successfully endows certain domestic objects with a sentimental value, turning them into a means of constructing her own person, and nearly giving them the effectiveness of sacred relics, it is only through an act of renouncing her control over the material world that she fleetingly fulfills herself. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |