| Description |
xxv, 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Women and gender in the early modern world
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Women and gender in the early modern world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-238) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. "Our Mothers' Maids": Nurture and Narrative -- 1. Telling Tales: Locating Female Nurture and Narrative in The Faerie Queene / Jacqueline T. Miller -- 2. Female Orality and the Healing Arts in Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale / Kate Giglio -- 3. Urania's Example: The Female Storyteller in Early Modern English Romance / Julie A. Eckerle -- 4. "Before woomen were Readers": How John Aubrey Wrote Female Oral History -- Part II. Spinsters, Knitters and Uses of Oral Traditions -- 5. Fractious: Teenage Girls' Tales in and out of Shakepeare / Diane Purkiss -- 6. robber Bridegrooms and Devoured Brides: The Influence of Folktales on Spenser's Busirane and Isis Church Episodes / Marianne Micros -- 7. "I'll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience": The Curtain Lecture and Shakepeare's Othello / LaRue Love Sloan -- 8. Free and Bound Maids: Women's Work Songs and Industrial Change in the Age of Shakepeare / Fiona McNeil -- 9. Gender at Work in the Crisis of London / Natasha Korda -- Part III. Oral Traditions and Masculinity -- 10. Pocky Queans and Homed Knaves: Gender Stereotypes in Libelous Poems / C. E. McGee -- 11. "When an Old Ballad is Plainly Sung": Musical Lyrics in the Plays of Margaret and William Cavendish / James Fizmaurice -- 12. "My manly shape, hath yet a woman's minde": The Fairy Escape from Gender-Role Rules in The Maid's Metamorphosis / Regina Buccola -- 13. "Her very phrases": Exploiting the Metaphysics of Presence in Twelfth Night / Eric Mason -- 14. Clamorous Voices. Incontient Fictions: Orality, Oratory, and Gender in William Baldwin's Beware the Cat / Clare R. Kinney |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Oral tradition in literature.
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Oral tradition in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
| Added Author |
Lamb, Mary Ellen, 1946-
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Bamford, Karen.
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| ISBN |
9780754655381 alkaline paper |
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0754655385 alkaline paper |
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