Subordinate subjects : gender, the political nation, and literary form in England, 1588-1688 / Mihoko Suzuki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suzuki, Mihoko, 1953- author.

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world.

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Politics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Politics and literature.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Feminism and literature.

England--Intellectual life--17th century.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of political equality. Subordinate Subjects traces to the end of Elizabeth Tudor's reign in the 1590s the origin of this imaginary, analyses its flowering during the English Revolution, and examines its afterlife from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. It uses post-Marxist theories of radical democracy, post-structuralist theories of gender, and a combination of political theory and psychoanalysis to discuss the early modern construction of the political subject. Subordinate Subjects makes a distinctive contribution to the study of early modern English literature and culture through its chronological range, its innovative use of political, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories, and its interdisciplinary focus on literature, social history, political thought, gender studies, and cultural studies.

Contents:

1. Apprentices and the national-popular

2. Gender and the political imaginary

3. Women's writing and the politics of history

4. Petitioning apprentices, petitioning wives

5. "Royalist" women and the English revolution

6. Apprentices, wives, "whores," and the political nation

7. Women, print culture, and the public sphere.

Notes:

First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-138-38340-6

1-315-24211-7

1-351-89707-1

9781315242118

OCLC:

975224614