Title Women's work in early modern English literature and culture / Michelle M. Dowd

Edition 1st ed Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations Series Early modern cultural studies Early modern cultural studies. Contents Labours of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot -- The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wetnursing -- Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework -- Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy Summary Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-245) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Working class women in literature. Work in literature. Labor in literature. Housekeeping in literature. Working class women -- England -- History -- 17th century Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century Literary studies: general -- Europe. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. English literature -- Early modern Housekeeping in literature Labor in literature Literature and society Women -- Social conditions Work in literature Working class women Working class women in literature England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230620391 0230620396 0230613454 9780230613454 1282507729 9781282507722 9781349378029 134937802X

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