Violence, politics, and gender in early modern England / edited by Joseph P. Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Joseph P., 1965-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--England--History.

Violence.

Sex role--England--History.

Sex role.

History.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain.

Politics and government.

England--Social conditions.

England.

Social conditions.

Violence in literature.

Sex role in literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700.

English literature.

English literature--Early modern.

Physical Description:

xii, 264 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and testing of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society involved violence that either resulted from or expressed hostility toward the early modern gender system. Contributors take fresh approaches to prominent works by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Behn as well as discuss lesser known texts and events such as the execution of female heretics in Reformation Norwich and the punishment of prostitutes in seventeenth-century London to draw new conclusions about gender in early modern England.

Contents:

Part I Venerable Patriarchs/Vulnerable Patriarchs

1 Apprentice Riots in Early Modern London / Paul S. Seaver 17

2 "But She Woulde Not Consent": Women's Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London / Cristine M. Varholy 41

3 "Writing Rape, Raping Rites": Shakespeare's and Middleton's Lucrece Poems / Celia R. Daileader 67

4 Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder / Katharine Gillespie 91

Part II Gender and State Violence

5 Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich / Muriel C. McClendon 125

6 Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England / Myron C. Noonkester 147

7 Executing the Body Politic: Inscribing State Violence onto Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Shannon Miller 173

8 London's Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution, and Questions of Evidence / Melissa Mowry 207

9 "I Will Forgive You if the World Will": Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690-1750 / Jennine Hurl-Eamon 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0230609805

9780230609808

OCLC:

226357048