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Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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Privacy, Domesticity, and Women in Early Modern England (Paperback)
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The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet
overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early
modern England. While other literary critics have focused their
studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and
criminals, the contributors to this collection propose that the
early modern subculture of femaleness is more expansive and
formative than is typically understood. They maintain that the
subculture includes segregated, sometimes secluded, domestic places
for primarily female activities like nursing, sewing, cooking, and
caring for children and the sick. It also includes hidden
psychological realms of privacy, organized by women's personal
habits, around intimate friendships or kinship, and behind
institutional powerlessness. The texts discussed in the volume
include plays not only by Shakespeare but also Ford, Wroth,
Marvell, Spenser and Cavendish, among others. Through the lens of
literature, contributors consider the unstructured, fluid quality
of much everyday female experience as well as the dimensions,
symbols, and the ever-changing politics and culture of the
household. They analyze the complex habits of female settings-the
verbal, spatial, and affective strategies of early-modern women's
culture, including private rituals, domestic practices, and erotic
attachments-in order to provide a broader picture of female culture
and of female authority. The authors argue-through a range of
critical approaches that include feminist, historical, and
psychoanalytic-that early modern women often transformed their
confinement into something useful and necessary, creating protected
and even sacred spaces with their own symbols and aesthetic.
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