Domestic arrangements in early modern England / edited by Kari Boyd McBride.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McBride, Kari Boyd.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance literary studies

Medieval & Renaissance literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Manners and customs in literature.

Literature and society--England--History--16th century.

Literature and society.

England.

History.

Literature and society--England--History--17th century.

Domestic relations in literature.

Parent and child in literature.

Married people in literature.

Marriage in literature.

Families in literature.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 341 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction : the politics of domestic arrangements / Kari Boyd McBride

"Those whom god hath joined together" : bondage metaphors and marital advice in early modern England / Sid Ray

"Bisket of love, which crumbles all away" : the failure of domestic metaphor in Margaret Cavendish's poetic fancies / Katharine Capshaw Smith

The "undividable incorporate" : householding in The comedy of errors / Jessica Slights

"That dead commodity, a wife" : sexual and domestic economy in Aphra Behn's comedies / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

Bloody relations : murderous wives in the street literature of seventeenth century England / Susan C. Staub

"The infant of your care" : guardianship in Shakespeare's Richard III and early modern England / Heather Dubrow

"She is herself a dowry" : King Lear and the problem of female entitlement in early modern England / Stephanie Chamberlain

Multiple parenting in Shakespeare's romances / Marianne Novy

Profitable children : children as commodities in early modern England / Claire M. Busse

Cockering mothers and humanist pedagogy in two Tudor school plays / Ursula Potter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-328) and index.

ISBN:

0820703249

OCLC:

48628687