Female Transgression In Early Modern Britain

Author : Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317135883

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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain by Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc Pdf

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Author : Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1315582155

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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain by Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc Pdf

Author : Katharine Kittredge
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472024414

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Lewd and Notorious by Katharine Kittredge Pdf

Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articulate memoirist of personal scandal, and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured and starved her young servants, propelling herself to an infamy comparable to Susan Smith's or Myra Hindley's. More awful women wait between these covers to teach us about society's reception (and construction) of their debauchery and dangerousness. The authors draw upon a rich range of contemporary texts to illuminate the lives of these women. Astute analysis of literary, legal, evangelical, epistolary, and political documents provides an understanding of 1700s womanhood. From lusty old maids to murderous mistresses, the characters who exemplify this period's vision of women on the edge are essential acquaintances for anyone wishing to understand the development and ramifications of conceptions of femininity.

Author : Penny Richards,Jessica Munns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317875512

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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe by Penny Richards,Jessica Munns Pdf

Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gender was experienced in early modern Europe. Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe shows how definitions of sexuality and gender roles operated and more particularly, how such definitions--and the activities they generated and reflected--articulated concerns inside a given culture. This means that the volume embodies an interdisciplinary approach: literature as well as history, religious studies, economics, and gender studies form the basis of this cultural history of early modern Europe. There are new approaches to understanding famous figures, such as Elizabeth I, James VI and I and his wife Anna of Denmark; Francis I; St. Teresa of Avila. Other chapters investigate topics such as militarism and court culture, and wider groups, such as urban citizens and noble families. The collection also studies ways in which gender and sexual orientation were represented in literature, as well as examinations of the theoretical issues involved in studying history from the angle of gender.

Author : R. Loughnane,E. Semple
Publisher : Springer
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349354

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Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England by R. Loughnane,E. Semple Pdf

Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. Staged Transgression was followed by a companion collection, Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England (2019), also available from Palgrave: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00892-5

Author : R. Loughnane,E. Semple
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349354

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Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England by R. Loughnane,E. Semple Pdf

Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics. Staged Transgression was followed by a companion collection, Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England (2019), also available from Palgrave: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00892-5

Author : Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1474429807

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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters by Jennifer Higginbotham Pdf

The first full-length study of how the concept of the 'girl' was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama. The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. Girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.

Author : Jennifer Kermode,Garthine Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018236427

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Women, Crime and the Courts in Early Modern England by Jennifer Kermode,Garthine Walker Pdf

Women, Crime, and the Courts in Early Modern England

Author : Susan Frye,Karen Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195353594

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Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens by Susan Frye,Karen Robertson Pdf

This new collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the varied forms of women's alliances in early modern England. It shows how women, prohibited from direct participation in the institutional structures that shaped the lives of men, constructed informal connections with other females for purposes of survival, advancement, and creativity. The essays presented here consider a variety of communities--formed among groups as diverse as serving women, vagrants, aristocrats, and authors--in order to study the historical traces of women's connections. "Alliance"--as understood by the essayists in this volume--does not preclude competition or antagonism, since the bonds among women were frequently determined by an opposition to other women. As shown here, the theorizing of women's connections, and the recovery of the historical evidence for these connections, can only add to our understanding of women's activities in early modern English society. Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens is divided into four sections. The first two, "Alliances in the City" and "Alliances in the Household," examine the circumstances of women's communities in two primary sites for women of this place and time. The second two, "Materializing Communities" and "Emerging Alliances," fully study the aspirations that guided and transformed the courses of women's lives. All of these interdisciplinary essays, deftly combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of class and race in the early modern period.

Author : Laura Gowing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317862338

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Gender Relations in Early Modern England by Laura Gowing Pdf

This concise and accessible book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. Amidst the political and religious disruptions of the Reformation and the Civil War, sexual difference and gender were matters of public debate and private contention. Laura Gowing provides unique insight into gender relations in a time of flux, through sources ranging from the women who tried to vote in Ipswich in 1640, to the dreams of Archbishop Laud and a grandmother describing the first time her grandson wore breeches. Examining gender relations in the contexts of the body, the house, the neighbourhood and the political world, this comprehensive study analyses the tides of change and the power of custom in a pre-modern world. This book offers: Previously unpublished documents by women and men from all levels of society, ranging from private letters to court cases A critical examination of a new field, reflecting original research and the most recent scholarship In-depth analysis of historical evidence, allowing the reader to reconstruct the hidden histories of women Also including a chronology, who’s who of key figures, guide to further reading and a full-colour plate section, Gender Relations in Early Modern England is ideal for students and interested readers at all levels, providing a diverse range of primary sources and the tools to unlock them.

Author : S. Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230000629

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Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England by S. Clark Pdf

Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society which particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women's rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order. It considers the problems of writing about transgressive women for audiences whose ideal woman was chaste, silent, and obedient.

Author : Christine Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0333716949

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Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640 by Christine Peters Pdf

Author : Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136720925

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The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by Jennifer Wynne Hellwarth Pdf

Drawing together social and medical history and literary studies, The Reproductive Unconscious in Late Medieval and Early Modern England studies the social practices and metaphorical representations of childbirth in medieval and early modern texts and argues for the existence of a reproductive unconscious. Discussing midwifery treatises, obstetrical and gynecological manuals, and devotional texts written for or by women, the author illustrates the ways in which medieval and early modern men and women negotiated a conflict between the ideological and material need of the culture for them to procreate, and an ideological injunction that they remain virginal and non-procreative.

Author : Lucy Bland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0719082641

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Modern Women on Trial by Lucy Bland Pdf

Modern Women on Trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race, and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history.

Author : Julia Marciari Alexander,Catharine MacLeod
Publisher : Studies in British Art
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082692446

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Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II by Julia Marciari Alexander,Catharine MacLeod Pdf

This volume brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character.