| Description |
xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan and Dympna Callaghan -- 2. Making it new: humanism, colonialism, and the gendered body in early modern culture / Denise Albanese -- 3. Gendering mortality in early modern anatomies / Valerie Traub -- 4. Wound-man: Coriolanus, gender, and the theatrical construction of interiority / Cynthia Marshall -- 5. "The world I have made": Margaret Cavendish, feminism, and the Blazing-World / Rosemary Kegl -- 6. Reading, writing, and other crimes / Frances E. Dolan -- 7. Culinary spaces, colonial spaces: the gendering of sugar in the seventeenth century / Kim F. Hall -- 8. Caliban versus Miranda: race and gender conflicts in postcolonial rewritings of The Tempest / Jyotsna G. Singh -- 9. Rape, repetition, and the politics of closure in A Midsummer Night's Dream / Laura Levine -- 10. Subjection and subjectivity: Jewish Law and female autonomy in Reformation English marriage / M. Lindsay Kaplan |
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11. "Where there can be no cause of affection": redefining virgins, their desires, and their pleasures in John Lyly's Gallathea / Theodora A. Jankowski -- 12. The Terms of gender: "gay" and "feminist" Edward II / Dympna Callaghan |
| Analysis |
England |
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Feminism Related to Literature History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Renaissance -- England.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Subjectivity in literature.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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| Author |
Callaghan, Dympna.
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Kaplan, M. Lindsay.
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Traub, Valerie, 1958-
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| LC no. |
95052637 |
| ISBN |
0521552494 (hardback) |
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0521558190 (paperback) |
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