Family Politics in Early Modern Literature

1. Introduction
Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis

Part I. Union

2. Margaret Cavendish, Wife
Julie Crawford

3. Reading Overbury’s Wife: Politics and Marriage in 1616
Christina Luckyj

4. Representations of the Family in Early Caroline Drama: Or, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Henrietta Maria?
Tom MacFaul

5. Animal Families
Helen Smith

Part II. Succession

6. ‘Good Agreement Betwixt the Wombe and Frute’: The Politics of Maternal Power in the Letters of Lady Anne Bacon
Katy Mair

7. Allegiance and Alliance: Maternal Genealogies in the Works of Mary Wroth
Naomi J. Miller

8. Mini-Majesty: Dynasty and Succession in the Portraiture of Henry VIII and Edward VI
Naomi Yavneh Klos

9. Beyond the Palace: The Transmission of Political Power in the Clifford Circle
Jessica L. Malay

Part III. Rebellion

10. Bare-Forked Animals: King Lear and the Problems of Patriarchalism
Su Fang Ng

11. The State, Childhood and Religious Dissent
Lucy Underwood

12. Father Figures: Paternal Politics in the Conversion Narratives of Thomas Gage and James Wadsworth
Abigail Shinn

13. Family Politics and Age in Early Modern England
Lucy Munro

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, Literary History, British and Irish Literature