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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USDHow did the new developments of the Renaissance affect the way women were understood by men and the way they understood themselves? Addressing a wide range of issues across Renaissance culture--humanism, technology, science, anatomy, literacy, theater, domesticity, colonialism, and sex--this collection of essays attempts to answer that question. In doing so, the authors discover that the female subject of the Renaissance shares a surprising amount of conceptual territory with her postmodern counterpart.
- 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.
