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Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
Frances E. Dolan
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Description for Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH; JKSB; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 420.
Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.Frances E. Dolan examines stories ranging from the profoundly disturbing to the comically macabre: of husband murder, wife murder, infanticide, and witchcraft. She surveys trial transcripts, confessions, and scaffold speeches, as well ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801481345
SKU
V9780801481345
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About Frances E. Dolan
Frances E. Dolan is Distinguished Professor of English at UC Davis. She is the author of Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture, Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy, and True Relations: Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England.
Reviews for Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
Dangerous Familiars is a richly textured book that opens up a variety of texts and places them in a complex historical perspective. Dolan's main argument is that the 'familiar' in early modern discourse was frequently construed as a prime source of danger to those within the domestic circle.We may think first of the witch's putative companion in evil, but Dolan, ... Read more