1st Edition
Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England
Edited By Corinne S. Abate
Copyright 2003
214 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary critics have focused their studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and criminals, the contributors to this collection propose that the early modern subculture of femaleness is more expansive and formative than is... Read more
Contents: Introduction: 'indistinguished space', Elizabeth Mazzola and Corinne S. Abate; 'Concealing Continents': Settings for intimacy and resistance: With the skin side inside: the interiors of The Duchess of Malfi, Lisa Hopkins; Neither a tamer nor a shrew be: a defense of Petruchio and Katherine, Corinne S. Abate; 'Wounds still curelesse': estates of loss in Mary Wroth's Urania, Kathryn Pratt; 'Hospitable Favors': Rituals of the Household: Trafficking in John Ford's The Broken Heart, Nancy A. Gutierrez; Good enough to eat: the domestic economy of woman-woman eroticism in Margaret Cavendish and Andrew Marvell, Theodora A. Jankowski; 'Thy weaker novice to perform thy will': female dominion over male identity in The Faerie Queene, Catherine G. Canino; 'Scanted Courtesies': Family dynamics and dispositions: 'Natural' boys and 'hard' stepmothers: Sidney and Elizabeth, Elizabeth Mazzola: Mystical sororities: the power of supernatural female narratives in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania, Sheila T. Cavanagh; Looking for Goneril and Regan, Cristina León Alfar; Index.
Biography
Corinne S. Abate
'The essays in Corinne S. Abate's Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England represent an innovative contribution to this work. The ten essays are prefaced by a valuable introduction by Abate and Elizabeth Mazzola.' Renaissance Journal '... this book with its clearly written, thoughtful, and compelling analyses of privacy in early modern literature will be a welcome addition to any scholar's shelf; it does much to distinguish that 'indistinguished space of women's will'.' Renaissance Quarterly 'Abate has gathered a wide-ranging set of essays that on the whole brings to light valuable perspectives on the inner lives of the women who inhabit early modern English fiction... These studies can be the basis of stimulting debate on the importance of the fluid and obscure realms of female existence.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... the collection of essays is a welcome addition to gender studies, exploring 'indistinguished space'...' Parergon
