Editor: Joseph P. Ward, Department of History, Utah State University - Wikipedia

Contents:

	Series Editor’s Preface (p. vii)
	Acknowledgments (p. ix)
	Contributors (p. xi)
	Introduction (p. 1) Carole Levin and Joseph P. Ward
	Part I   Venerable Patriarchs/Vulnerable Patriarchs
	1 Apprentice Riots in Early Modern London (p. 17) Paul S. Seaver
	2 “But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London (p. 41) Cristine M. Varholy
	3 “Writing Rape, Raping Rites”: Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems (p. 67) Celia R. Daileader
	4 Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder (p. 91) Katharine Gillespie
	Part II   Gender and State Violence
	5 Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich (p. 125) Muriel C. McClendon
	6 Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England (p. 147) Myron C. Noonkester
	7 Executing the Body Politic: Inscribing State Violence onto Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (p. 173) Shannon Miller
	8 London’s Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution, and Questions of Evidence (p. 207) Melissa Mowry
	9 “I Will Forgive You if the World Will”: Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690–1750 (p. 223) Jennine Hurl-Eamon
	Afterword (p. 249) Frances E. Dolan
	Index (p. 255)

Description: »This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society involved violence that either resulted from or expressed hostility toward the early modern gender system. Contributors take fresh approaches to prominent works by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Behn as well as discuss lesser known texts and events such as the execution of female heretics in Reformation Norwich and the punishment of prostitutes in seventeenth-century London to draw new conclusions about gender in early modern England.« (Source: Palgrave Macmillan)

Reviews: Font Paz, Carme. SEDERI Yearbook No. 20 (2010): 177-182. - Full Text: Redalyc (Free Access)

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