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Debating Gender in Early Modern England 1500-1700
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Hardcover. The essays in this volume exploring the construction of gender ideology in early modern England, focus attention on the implications of the gender debate for women writers and their literary relations, cultural ideology and the family, and political discourse and ideas of nationhood. Editor(s): Malcolmson, Cristina; Suzuki, Mihoko. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 505.
This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy, which revolved around the publication of Joseph Swetnam's The arraignment of lewd, forward, and inconstant women and the pamphlets which responded to its misogynist attacks. The volume contextualizes the debate in terms of its continental antecedents and elite manuscript circulation in England, then moves to consider popular culture and printed texts ... Read more
This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy, which revolved around the publication of Joseph Swetnam's The arraignment of lewd, forward, and inconstant women and the pamphlets which responded to its misogynist attacks. The volume contextualizes the debate in terms of its continental antecedents and elite manuscript circulation in England, then moves to consider popular culture and printed texts ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies Series
Number of Pages
265
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312294571
SKU
V9780312294571
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99-15
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CHRISTINA MALCOLMSON is Associate Professor of English and former Chair of Women's Studies at Bates College. Her previous books include Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic and Longman Critical Readers: Renaissance Poetry. MIHOKO SUZUKI is Associate Professor of English and former Director of Women's Studies at the University of Miami. She is the author of Metamorphoses of Helen: ... Read more
Reviews for Debating Gender in Early Modern England 1500-1700
"...this volume establishes a threshold of excellence that will become the ideal for later scholarship to emulate." - A.C. Labriola, Choice "This is a rich and unusual collection of essays. The book differs strikingly from most collections of essays because it not only studies past debates focused on questions of gender but also stages - in an ... Read more