Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 (Paperback, 1st ed. 2002)

This book explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the querelle des femmes - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy, which revolved around the publication of Joseph Swetnam's The arraignment of lewd, forward, and inconstant women and the pamphlets which responded to its misogynist attacks. The volume contextualizes the debate in terms of its continental antecedents and elite manuscript circulation in England, then moves to consider popular culture and printed texts from the Jacobean debate and its effects on women's writing and the developing discourse on gender, and concludes with an examination of the ramifications of the debate during the Civil War and Restoration. Essays focus attention on the implications of the gender debate for women writers and their literary relations, cultural ideology and the family, and political discourse and ideas of nationhood.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700
Release date:	September 2002
First published:	2002
Editors:	C. Malcolmson • M. Suzuki
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	265
Edition:	1st ed. 2002
ISBN-13:	978-1-349-38777-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-349-38777-0
Barcode:	9781349387779

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