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The usurer's daughter : male friendship and fictions of women in sixteenth-century England / Lorna Hutson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hutson, Lorna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Characters--Women.
- Shakespeare, William.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Women and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.
- Women and literature.
- English literature--Classical influences.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Friendship in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Humanists--England.
- Humanists.
- Men in literature.
- England--Intellectual life--16th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- x, 295 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. The Usurer's Daughter: * provides startling new readings of Shakespeare * takes an entirely new approach to classical scholarship * focuses attention on the central importance of the history of the representation of women * illuminates how social relations between men were textualised during the early modern period.
- Contents:
- chapter INTRODUCTION
- The signs of friendship
- part Part I MENTAL HUSBANDRY
- chapter 1 THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS
- chapter 2 ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP
- The textuality of amicitia
- chapter Part II Anxieties of textual access
- chapter 3 FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO
- Masculinity and romantic fiction / PRUDENT CAPTAIN
- chapter 4 USURERS DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS
- The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s
- chapter Part III The theatre of clandestine marriage
- chapter 5 HOUSEHOLD STUFF
- Terence in the Reformation
- chapter 6 WHY DO SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN HAVE CHARACTERS�? Error, credit and sex in The Comedy of
- Error, credit and sex in The Comedy of / Errors and The Taming of the Shrew
- chapter CONCLUSION
- Shylock: Why this usurer has a daughter
- chapter NOTES
- chapter PRIMARY SOURCES
- chapter SECONDARY SOURCES.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-71578-1
- 1-134-71579-X
- 1-282-77815-3
- 9786612778155
- 0-203-21560-5
- 9780203215609
- OCLC:
- 179164106
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