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. Ed(S): Ward, J (University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, Uk University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, Uk Rothamsted Research, Uk Unive - Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England - 9781349376230 - V9781349376230
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Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England

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Description for Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England paperback. Editor(s): Ward, J (University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, UK University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, UK Rothamsted Research, UK University College, Galway University College, Galway University College, Galway University College, Galway). Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSBB; HBJD; HBL; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England.  Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society involved violence that either resulted from or expressed hostility toward the early modern gender system. Contributors take fresh approaches to prominent works by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Behn as well as discuss lesser known texts and events such as the execution of female heretics in Reformation Norwich and the punishment of prostitutes in seventeenth-century London ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Early Modern Cultural Studies
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349376230
SKU
V9781349376230
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About . Ed(S): Ward, J (University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, Uk University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, Uk Rothamsted Research, Uk Unive
Joseph P. Ward is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History of the University of Mississippi, USA.

Reviews for Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England
"This timely collection of essays by a range of literary and cultural historians deftly explores the multivalent and sometimes conflictive uses of violence in early modern England - a period for which violence was a natural but by no means a transparent form of social expression. Early modern violence spoke volumes but the particular story any one act of violence ... Read more

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