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Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse (Hardcover)
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Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse (Hardcover)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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An important contribution to recent critical discussions about
gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England,
this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate
how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among
people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela
S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print
collections"including the verse of authors ranging from Robert
Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy
Hutchinson, and Aemilia Lanyer"and situates them in relation to
legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her
approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused
upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the
significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the
poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women
used to assert themselves as subjects of property and economic
agents"in relation to material items ranging from personal property
to real estate"despite the dominant patriarchal ideology insisting
they were ideally temporary, passive vehicles for men's wealth. The
study details how women imagined their multiple, complex
interactions with the material world:the author shows that how a
woman poet represents herself in relation to material objects is a
flexible fiction she can mobilize for diverse purposes. Because
this book analyzes men's and women's poems together, it isolates
important gendered differences in how the poets envision human
subjects' use, control, possession, and ownership of things and the
influences, effects, and power of things over humans. It also adds
to the increasing evidence for the pervasiveness of patriarchal
anxieties associated with female economic agency in a culture in
which women were often treated as objects.
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