Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture
Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture
M. Lindsay Kaplan , Georgetown University, Washington DC
Dympna Callaghan , Syracuse University, New York
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GBPHow did the events of the early modern period affect the way gender and the self were represented? This collection of essays attempts to respond to this question by analysing a wide spectrum of cultural concerns - humanism, technology, science, law, anatomy, literacy, domesticity, colonialism, erotic practices, and the theatre - in order to delineate the history of subjectivity and its relationship with the postmodern fragmented subject. The scope of this analysis expands the terrain explored by feminist theory, while its feminist focus reveals that the subject is always gendered - although the terms in which gender is conceived and represented change across history. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture not only explores the representation of gendered subjects, but in its commitment to balancing the productive tensions of methodological diversity, also speaks to contemporary challenges facing feminism.
- New insights into the development of women as subject in early modern literature and culture
- Puts Shakespeare and other major Renaissance authors into new context
- Informed by cutting-edge and internally coherent theoretical approaches
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October 1996Paperback
9780521558198
320 pages
229 × 152 × 19 mm
0.441kg
33 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Valerie Traub, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Dympna Callaghan
- 2. Making it new: humanism, colonialism, and the gendered body in early modern culture Denise Albanese
- 3. Gendering mortality in early modern anatomies Valerie Traub
- 4. Wound man: Coriolanus, gender and the theatrical construction of interiority Cynthia Marshall
- 5. 'The world I have made': Margaret Cavendish, feminism, and the Blazing-World Rosemary Kegl
- 6. Reading, writing, and other crimes Frances E. Dolan
- 7. Culinary spaces, colonial spaces: the gendering of sugar in the seventeenth century Kim F. Hall
- 8. Caliban versus Miranda: race and gender conflicts in post-colonial re-writings of The Tempest Jyotsna G. Singh
- 9. Rape, repetition, and the politics of closure in A Midsummer Night's Dream Laura Levine
- 10. Subjection and subjectivity: Jewish law and female autonomy in Reformation English marriage M. Lindsay Kaplan
- 'Where there can be no cause of affection': redefining virgins, their desires, and their pleasures in John Lyly's Gallathea Theodora A. Jankowski
- The terms of gender: 'gay' and feminist Edward II Dympna Callaghan.
