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Author Matchinske, Megan.

Title Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
Published Cambridge, GBR : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture ; v. 26
Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Material contexts: theirs, mine, and ours; Theorizing the terms; The parameters; An overview; Gender and state; 1 Resistance, Reformation, and the remaining narratives ; Forgotten discourses; And the word was God; Bale and the meta-discursive; Extending the boundaries: Askew and the written Examinations; Narratives in the making
2 Framing recusant identity in Counter-Reformation England Forty years and four separate monarchies; Cultural blueprints; The private; The familial; The performative; Rewriting the story; The Louvain psalter; 3 Legislating morality in the marriage market ; Maids, wives, and widows; The Querelle des femmes; English marriage law; Faulty contracts; A question of value; The barre of fame and report; Chastity in the plays; What gets lost in the tradeoff; The domestic confessional
Conscience catching in the playTrajectories; 4 Gender formation in English apocalyptic writing ; Apocalypse and the call to arms; Theorizing mid-century state formation; Apocalyptic writing and its place in the state; A ""universal"" apocalyptic discourse?; Women and subjectivity: the case of Lady Eleanor Davies; Gendering rhetorical strategy; Some final considerations; 5 Connections, qualifications, and agendas ; Some qualifications; New directions; Culture in process; Notes
Bibliography Bibliography Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Barton, Anne.
Dollimore, Jonathan.
Garber, Marjorie B.
Orgel, Stephen.
ISBN 0511582749
9780511582745