The Mother S Legacy In Early Modern England

Author : Jennifer Heller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317023654

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The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England by Jennifer Heller Pdf

Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England that takes the form of a dying mother's pious counsel to her children. Reading these texts in light of specific cultural contexts, social trends, and historical events, Heller explores how legacy writers used the genre to secure personal and family status, to shape their children's beliefs and behaviors, and to intervene in the period's tumultuous religious and political debates. The author's attention to the fine details of the period's religious and political swings, drawn from sources such as royal proclamations, sermons, and first-hand accounts of book-burnings, creates a fuller context for her analysis of the legacies. Similarly, Heller explains the appeal of the genre by connecting it to social factors including mortality rates and inheritance practices. Analyses of related genres, such as conduct books and fathers' legacies, highlight the unique features and functions of mothers' legacies. Heller also attends to the personal side of the genre, demonstrating that a writer's education, marriages, children, and turns of fortune affect her work within the genre.

Author : Jennifer Louise Heller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409411087

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The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England by Jennifer Louise Heller Pdf

Reading twenty printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England. Attending to cultural, social and historical trends, Heller explores how legacy writers used the genre to secure personal and family status, to shape their children's beliefs and behaviors, and to intervene in the period's religious and political debates.

Author : Ms Jennifer Heller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478713

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The Mother's Legacy in Early Modern England by Ms Jennifer Heller Pdf

Using printed and manuscript texts composed between 1575 and 1672, Jennifer Heller defines the genre of the mother's legacy as a distinct branch of the advice tradition in early modern England that takes the form of a dying mother's pious counsel to her children. Reading these texts in light of specific cultural contexts, social trends, and historical events, Heller explores how legacy writers used the genre to secure personal and family status, to shape their children's beliefs and behaviors, and to intervene in the period's tumultuous religious and political debates. The author's attention to the fine details of the period's religious and political swings, drawn from sources such as royal proclamations, sermons, and first-hand accounts of book-burnings, creates a fuller context for her analysis of the legacies. Similarly, Heller explains the appeal of the genre by connecting it to social factors including mortality rates and inheritance practices. Analyses of related genres, such as conduct books and fathers' legacies, highlight the unique features and functions of mothers' legacies. Heller also attends to the personal side of the genre, demonstrating that a writer's education, marriages, children, and turns of fortune affect her work within the genre.

Author : Elizabeth Mazzola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351871150

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Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Mazzola Pdf

Focusing on both literary and material networks in early modern England, this book examines the nature of women's wealth, its peculiar laws of transmission and accumulation, and how a world of goods and favors, mothers and daughters was transformed by market culture. Drawing on the long and troubled relationship between Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Bess of Hardwick, and Arbella Stuart, Elizabeth Mazzola more broadly explores what early modern women might exchange with or leave to each other, including jewels and cloth, needlework, combs, and candlesticks. Women's writings take their place in this circulation of material things, and Mazzola argues that their poems and prayers, letters and wills are particularly designed with the aim of substantiating female ties. This book is an interdisciplinary one, making use of archival research, literary criticism, social history, feminist theory, and anthropological studies of gift exchange to propose that early modern women - whatever their class, educational background or marital status - were key economic players, actively pursuing favors, trading services, and exchanging goods.

Author : Megan Matchinske
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107406625

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Women Writing History in Early Modern England by Megan Matchinske Pdf

In 1603 an English gentlewoman, Elizabeth Grymeston, composed for her young son a series of meditations - meditations that would offer posthumous advice and reflection on everything from the nature of sin to the limits of royal authority. Six months later Grymeston was dead and her words memorialized not just for a small boy but also for an English audience eager for moral edification and enlightenment. As one of the first writers of the mother's legacy to appear in England, Grymeston looked to history to find her answers. Using life experience as her witness, she drew immediate and powerful connections between yesterday's actions and tomorrow's possibilities. She was not alone - throughout the seventeenth century, scores of Englishwomen did likewise, exploring in their own 'histories' the shifting relationships between past and future. This book focuses on this dynamic exchange, asking us to look seriously at the ends of history.

Author : Jodi Mikalachki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134689507

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The Legacy of Boadicea by Jodi Mikalachki Pdf

The Legacy of Boadicea explores the construction of personal and national identities in early modern England. It highlights the problems and anxieties of national identity in a nation with no native classical past. Written in an accessible style, The Legacy of Boadicea: * offers powerful new readings of the ancient British past in Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline * persuasively illuminates a 'Boadicean' heritage in royal iconography, drama, and the social symptoms of religious dissent * articulates parallels between the eventual domestication of Britain's warrior queen in Restoration drama, and the social, political and legal decline in the status of women.

Author : Jacqueline Eales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135367725

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Women In Early Modern England, 1500-1700 by Jacqueline Eales Pdf

This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern period. It emcompasses a guide to the historiography, an assessment of the major debates, and information about the varied sources available for women's history in this period. Arranged around familiar themes - the family, work, religion, education - the book presents a comprehensive survey of the social, economic and political position of women in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Author : Carey Fleiner,Elena Woodacre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137513151

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Virtuous or Villainess? The Image of the Royal Mother from the Early Medieval to the Early Modern Era by Carey Fleiner,Elena Woodacre Pdf

This collection addresses royal motherhood across Europe, from both the medieval and Early Modern periods, including (in)famous and not-so-famous royal mothers. The essays in this collection reveal the complexities and the subtleties inherent in the role of royal mothers and challenges these traditional stereotypes. The volume provides a fresh re-evaluation of these women, from those who have been given an almost saintly status to those who struggled against contemporary chronicles and propaganda that perpetuated the stereotypes associated with ‘bad mothers’– these particular images of saintliness and wickedness have persisted right into the modern era. This series of intriguing case studies reveals how royal mothers were perceived by their contemporaries and explores the motivation for the ways in which they are depicted in modern popular culture. Taken together with the companion volume, Royal Mothers and their Ruling Children, this collection sheds new light on the important and challenging role of mothers within the framework of monarchy and at the epicenter of power.

Author : Corinne S. Abate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015056946448

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Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England by Corinne S. Abate Pdf

The essays that comprise this collection explore how private and domestic and predominantly female spaces were imagined and employed in the early modern period so as to produce and reproduce culture.

Author : Amy Louise Erickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134785575

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Women and Property by Amy Louise Erickson Pdf

This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.

Author : Sylvia Brown,Sylvia Monica Brown
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047596872

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Women's Writing in Stuart England by Sylvia Brown,Sylvia Monica Brown Pdf

It may peradventure ... appear strange to thee to recyve theas lines from a mother that dyed when thou weart born. So writes Elizabeth Joscelin to her unborn daughter, shortly before dying in childbirth on 12 October, 1622. As a godly woman, Joscelin was aware of her duty to instruct her child in religion. Prophetically fearing her death, she chose to embody her instruction in a text, a mother's legacy, through which she could (as it were) speak to her child from the dead. In 1624, a Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Goad, published Joscelin's legacy for a wider audience - but with significant changes.

Author : Felicity Dunworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English drama
ISBN : 1781702160

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Mothers and Meaning on the Early Modern English Stage by Felicity Dunworth Pdf

Mothers and meaning on the early modern English stage' is a study of the dramatised mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. It explores a range of genres: moralities, histories, romantic comedies, city comedies, domestic tragedies, high tragedies, romances and melodrama and includes close readings of plays by such diverse dramatists as Udall, Bale, Phillip, Legge, Kyd, Marlowe, Peele, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker and Webster. The study is enriched by reference to religious, political and literary discourses of the period, from Reformation and.

Author : Helen Berry,Elizabeth Foyster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106016944123

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The Early Modern Englishwoman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kathryn M. Moncrief,Kathryn Read McPherson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0754661172

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Performing Maternity in Early Modern England by Kathryn M. Moncrief,Kathryn Read McPherson Pdf

The essays in Performing Maternity in Early Modern England explore maternity's textual and cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences from 1540-1690. They emphasize that the embodied, repeated and public nature of maternity defines it as inherently performative and ultimately central to the production of gender identity in the period.