Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance

1. Introduction: Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance
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2. ‘Though a temporall man, yet your very spirituall father’: The Roper/Basset Line and the Lives of Thomas More
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3. ‘Sory coumfortlesse Orphanes’: The Rastell/Heywood Line
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4. ‘Worthy of their blood and their vocation’: The More/Cresacre Line
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5. Representations of Relations on the Political Stage within the Fitzalan/Lumley Household
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6. ‘As I, for one, who thus my habits change’, Mary Wroth and the Abandonment of the Sidney/Herbert Familial Discourse
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7. Sisters and Brothers: Divided Sibling Identity in the Cary Family
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8. Desire, Chastity and Rape in the Cavendish Familial Discourse
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9. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Gender Studies, History of Early Modern Europe, British and Irish Literature