Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England

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ISBN: 9780230609808 | 0230609805
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/15/2008

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This book engages in the interdisciplinary study of the establishment and testing of gender roles in early modern England through fresh approaches to prominent works by Shakespeare, Middleton, and Behn.

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Series Editor's Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Venerable Patriarchs/Vulnerable Patriarchs
Apprentice Riots in Early Modern London	p. 17
"But She Woulde Not Consent": Women's Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London	p. 41
"Writing Rape, Raping Rites": Shakespeare's and Middleton's Lucrece Poems	p. 67
Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder	p. 91
Gender and State Violence
Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich	p. 125
Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England	p. 147
Executing the Body Politic: Inscribing State Violence onto Aphra Behn's Oroonoko	p. 173
London's Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution, and Questions of Evidence	p. 207
"I Will Forgive You if the World Will": Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690-1750	p. 223
Afterword	p. 249
Index	p. 255
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Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England

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