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 Order and Disorder
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 Oroonoko
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

Nyckelord: Linguistics, English, Gender Studies, European History, Modern History, Literature, general, Classical and Antique Literature