Malcolmson / Suzuki Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

2002
ISBN: 978-0-230-10754-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 265 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700

This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy, which revolved around the publication of Joseph Swetnam's The arraignment of lewd, forward, and inconstant women and the pamphlets which responded to its misogynist attacks. The volume contextualizes the debate in terms of its continental antecedents and elite manuscript circulation in England, then moves to consider popular culture and printed texts from the Jacobean debate and its effects on women's writing and the developing discourse on gender, and concludes with an examination of the ramifications of the debate during the Civil War and Restoration. Essays focus attention on the implications of the gender debate for women writers and their literary relations, cultural ideology and the family, and political discourse and ideas of nationhood.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malcolmson, C.

Suzuki, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; C.Malcolmson & M.Suzuki PART I: MANUSCRIPTS AND DEBATES Christine de Pizan's 'City of Ladies' in Early Modern England; C.Malcolmson Anne Southwell and the Pamphlet Debate: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Manuscript; E.Clarke PART II: PRINT, PEDAGOGYAND THE QUESTION OF CLASS Muzzling the Competition: Rachel Speght and the Economics of Print; L.Schnell Women's Popular Culture? Teaching the Swetnam Controversy; M.Gough PART III: WOMEN'S SUBJECTIVITY IN MALE-AUTOHRED TEXTS The Broadside Ballad and the Woman's Voice; S.Clark 'Weele have a Went shall be our Poet': Samuel Rowlands' Gossip Pamphlets; S.O'Malley PART IV: FIGURATIONS OF THE MATERNAL AND THE FAMILY The Matter of Death: The Defense of Eve and the Female Ars Moriendi; P.Phillippy 'Hens Should Be Served First': Prioritizing Maternal Production in the Early Modern Pamphlet Debate; N.Miller Cross-Dressed Women and Natural Mothers: 'Boundary Panic' in Hic Mulier ; R.Trubowitz PART V: POLITICS, STATE AND THE NATION Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women's Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travail of 'Mistress Parliament' and Mris Rump; K.Romack Elizabeth, Gender, and the Political Imaginary of Seventeenth-Century England; M.Suzuki Afterword; H.Smith

Über Autor(innen)

CHRISTINA MALCOLMSON is Associate Professor of English and former Chair of Women's Studies at Bates College. Her previous books include
Heart-Work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic
and
Longman Critical Readers: Renaissance Poetry.
MIHOKO SUZUKI is Associate Professor of English and former Director of Women's Studies at the University of Miami. She is the author of
Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic
and editor of
Critical Essays on Edmund Spenser.