Title Disorderly women and female power in the street literature of early modern England and Germany / Joy Wiltenburg

Published Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1992

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Description x, 352 pages ; 24 cm Series Feminist issues Feminist issues (Charlottesville, Va.) Contents 1. Prologue. 2. Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Europe. 3. The Literature of the Streets -- Disorderly Women. 4. Woman as Protagonist: Virtue and Disorder. 5. The Locus of Power: Marital Order. 6. Marital Disorder. 7. Sex and Power. 8. Women and Violence: Tragedy and Comedy. 9. Women and Crime: A Return to the Family. 10. Perspectives Analysis England Germany Literature Special subjects Women Notes Includes translations from German Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-346) and index Subject Comparative literature -- English and German. Comparative literature -- German and English. Disorderly conduct in literature. English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Feminism and literature. German literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. Feminism and literature -- England. Feminism and literature -- Germany. Street literature -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century. Women and literature -- Germany. LC no. 91022327 ISBN 0813913500 0813913519 (paperback)

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