Domestic Arrangements In Early Modern England

Author : Kari Boyd McBride
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055800968

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Domestic Arrangements in Early Modern England by Kari Boyd McBride Pdf

This book provides a varied and rich array of perspectives on a wide range of early modern English social roles and relationships as well as cultural norms and areas of contestation. It demonstrates the many ways in which the attitudes and activities that pertain to the domestic sphere are not in any way peripheral to the study of the period -- domestic arrangements are political arrangements. This rich collection of 11 essays illuminates the many ways in which the domestic sphere served as a stage for playing out the pressing questions that perplexed the writers and thinkers of early modern England -- questions about family (householding, marriage, children and parenting), as well as questions about emerging political realities. While 'home' may seem to invoke blood ties-the mother with a child at her breast or siblings at play -- it is finally the bonds that replace blood that demand the mythos of domestic arrangements in all their variety -- from the legal, social, economic and cultural ties of marriage, sealed by the exchange of women from man to man and house to house, to the relationships of stepparents and stepchildren, to the even more tenuous ties that bind class to class and citizen to citizen.

Author : Helen Berry,Elizabeth Foyster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521858762

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The Family in Early Modern England by Helen Berry,Elizabeth Foyster Pdf

This text provides an assessment of the most important research published in the past three decades on the English family.

Author : Tara Hamling,Catherine Teresa Richardson
Publisher : Association of Human Rights Institutes series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : England
ISBN : 030019501X

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A Day at Home in Early Modern England by Tara Hamling,Catherine Teresa Richardson Pdf

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging narrative form that follows the pattern of a typical day from early morning through the middle of the night, A Day at Home in Early Modern England examines the profound influence that the domestic material environment had on structuring and expressing modes of thought and behaviour of relatively ordinary people. With a multidisciplinary approach that takes both extant objects and documentary sources into consideration, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson recreate the layered complexity of lived household experience and explore how a family's investment in rooms, decoration, possessions, and provisions served to define not only their status, but the social, commercial, and religious concerns that characterised their daily existence. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Author : Michelle M. Dowd,Julie A. Eckerle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317129363

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Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England by Michelle M. Dowd,Julie A. Eckerle Pdf

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.

Author : Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108474030

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Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by Emma Whipday Pdf

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Author : Harry R. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009116589

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Boy Actors in Early Modern England by Harry R. McCarthy Pdf

Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical culture. Ranging across drama performed from the 1580s to the 1630s by all-boy and adult companies alike, the book argues that the exuberant physicality fostered in boy performers across the early modern repertory shaped not only their own performances, but how and why plays were written for them in the first place. Harry R. McCarthy's ground-breaking approach to boy performance draws on detailed analysis of a wide range of plays, thorough interrogation of the cultural contexts in which they were written and performed, and present-day practice-based research, offering a critical reimagining of this important and unique facet of early modern theatrical culture.

Author : Randall Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135899448

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Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England by Randall Martin Pdf

This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership.

Author : Kathleen Kalpin Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315465753

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Gender, Speech, and Audience Reception in Early Modern England by Kathleen Kalpin Smith Pdf

This book makes a significant contribution to recent scholarship on the ways in which women responded to the regulation of their behavior by focusing on representations of women speakers and their audiences in moments Smith identifies as "scenes of speech." This new approach, examining speech exchanges between a speaker and audience in which both anticipate, interact with, and respond to each other and each other's expectations, demonstrates that the prescriptive process involves a dynamic exchange in which each side plays a role in establishing and contesting the boundaries of acceptable speech for women. Drawing from a wide range of evidence, including pamphlets, diaries, illustrations, and plays, the book interprets the various and at times contradictory representations and reception of women’s speech that circulated in early modern England. Speech scenes examined within include wives' speech to their husbands in private, private speech between women, public speech before death, and the speech of witches. Looking at scenes of women’s speech from male and female authors, Smith argues that these early modern texts illustrate a means through which societal regulations were negotiated and modified. This book will appeal to those with an interest in early modern drama, including the playwrights Shakespeare, Cary, Webster, Fletcher, and Middleton, as well as readers of non-dramatic early modern literary texts. The volume is of particular use for scholars working in the areas of early modern literature and culture, women’s history, gender studies, and performance studies.

Author : Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270190

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Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader by Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld Pdf

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.

Author : Richard Preiss,Deanne Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107094185

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Childhood, Education and the Stage in early modern England by Richard Preiss,Deanne Williams Pdf

This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

Author : Antony Buxton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270415

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Domestic Culture in Early Modern England by Antony Buxton Pdf

A detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496231543

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Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hannah Crawforth,Sarah Lewis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137511447

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Family Politics in Early Modern Literature by Hannah Crawforth,Sarah Lewis Pdf

This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis – birth and death, maturation, marriage – moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a result, family ‘politics’ become most apparent.

Author : Elizabeth A Foyster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317884279

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Manhood in Early Modern England by Elizabeth A Foyster Pdf

This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.

Author : Linda Phyllis Austern,Kari Boyd McBride
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317073987

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Psalms in the Early Modern World by Linda Phyllis Austern,Kari Boyd McBride Pdf

Psalms in the Early Modern World is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. In the age of Reformation, when religious concerns drove political, social, cultural, economic, and scientific discourse, the Bible was the supreme document, and the Psalms were arguably its most important book.The Psalms played a central role in arbitrating the salient debates of the day, including but scarcely limited to the nature of power and the legitimacy of rule; the proper role and purpose of nations; the justification for holy war and the godliness of peace; and the relationship of individual and community to God. Contributors to the collection follow these debates around the Atlantic world, to pre- and post-Hispanic translators in Latin America, colonists in New England, mystics in Spain, the French court during the religious wars, and both Protestants and Catholics in England. Psalms in the Early Modern World showcases essays by scholars from literature, history, music, and religious studies, all of whom have expertise in the use and influence of Psalms in the early modern world. The collection reaches beyond national and confessional boundaries and to look at the ways in which Psalms touched nearly every person living in early modern Europe and any place in the world that Europeans took their cultural practices.