The Witlings and the Woman Hater

The Witlings and the Woman Hater

Author: Geoffrey M Sill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1315476711

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This edition contains two of Frances Burney's comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict.


Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens

Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens

Author: Susan Frye

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-01-28

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0195353595

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This new collection of sixteen essays considers evidence for the varied forms of women's alliances in early modern England. It shows how women, prohibited from direct participation in the institutional structures that shaped the lives of men, constructed informal connections with other females for purposes of survival, advancement, and creativity. The essays presented here consider a variety of communities--formed among groups as diverse as serving women, vagrants, aristocrats, and authors--in order to study the historical traces of women's connections. "Alliance"--as understood by the essayists in this volume--does not preclude competition or antagonism, since the bonds among women were frequently determined by an opposition to other women. As shown here, the theorizing of women's connections, and the recovery of the historical evidence for these connections, can only add to our understanding of women's activities in early modern English society. Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens is divided into four sections. The first two, "Alliances in the City" and "Alliances in the Household," examine the circumstances of women's communities in two primary sites for women of this place and time. The second two, "Materializing Communities" and "Emerging Alliances," fully study the aspirations that guided and transformed the courses of women's lives. All of these interdisciplinary essays, deftly combining literary and historical methods and materials, are informed by feminism, queer theory, and studies of class and race in the early modern period.


The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

The Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, and Unconstant Women

Author: JOSEPH. SWETNAM

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781385395493

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Bodleian Library (Oxford) T184911 Anonymous. By Joseph Swetnam. Originally published in 1615 as 'The araignment of lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women'. London: printed for B. Deacon, 1704. [14],17-168p.; 12°


A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse

A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse

Author: Eva Griffith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1107041880

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The first history of the Queen's Servants, parallel players to Shakespeare's company, and their playhouse, The Red Bull.


The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets

The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Robert Matz

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0786454032

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Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet's world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.


Renaissance Feminism

Renaissance Feminism

Author: Constance Jordan

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1501721844

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Considering a wide range of Renaissance works of nonfiction, Jordan asserts that feminism as a mode of thought emerged as early as the fifteenth century in Italy, and that the main arguments for the social equality of the sexes were common in the sixteenth century. Renaissance feminism, she maintains, was a feature of a broadly revisionist movement that regarded the medieval model of creation as static and hierarchical and favored a model that was dynamic and relational. Jordan examines pro-woman arguments found in dozens of pan-European texts in the light of present-day notions of authority and subordination, particularly resistance theory, in an attempt to link gender issues to larger contemporary theoretical and institutional questions. Drawing on sources as varied as treatises on marriage and on education, defenses and histories of women, popular satires, moral dialogues, and romances, Renaissance Feminism illustrates the broad scope of feminist argument in early modern Europe, recovering prowoman arguments that had disappeared from the record of gender debates and transforming the ways in which early modern gender ideology has been understood. Renaissance scholars and feminist critics and historians in general will welcome this book, and medievalists and intellectual historians will also find it valuable reading.


Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England

Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England

Author: Megan Matchinske

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-05-28

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0521622549

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The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, to Civil War perceptions of the self as inscribed by the state and inflected according to gender, a site of civil and sexual invigilation and control. Each centres on the work of an early modern woman writer in the act of self-definition and authorization, in relation to external powers such as the Church and the monarchy. Megan Matchinske's study illustrates the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining different identities for men and women. The conjunction of gender and statehood in Matchinske's analysis represents an original contribution to the study of early modern identity.