Ward, Joseph P.
Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England
1. Introduction
Carole Levin, Joseph P. Ward
Part I. Venerable Patriarchs/Vulnerable Patriarchs
2. Apprentice Riots in
Early Modern London
Paul S. Seaver
3. “But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London
Cristine M. Varholy
4. “Writing Rape, Raping Rites”:
Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems
Celia R. Daileader
5. Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson’s
Katharine Gillespie
Part II. Gender and State Violence
6. Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich
Muriel C. Mcclendon
7. Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England
Myron C. Noonkester
8. Executing the Body Politic: Inscribing State Violence onto Aphra Behn’s
Shannon Miller
9. London’s Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution, and Questions of Evidence
Melissa Mowry
10. “I Will Forgive You if the World Will”: Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690–1750
Jennine Hurl-Eamon
11. Afterword
Frances E. Dolan
Keywords: Linguistics, English, Gender Studies, European History, Modern History, Literature, general, Classical and Antique Literature
- Editor
- Ward, Joseph P.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Early Modern Cultural Studies
- Page amount
- 276 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230617018
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-37623-0