Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture [electronic resource] /
Dowd, Michelle M.author.
Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Introduction; 1 Labors of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot; 2 The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wet-Nursing; 3 Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework; 4 Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.
European literature.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern.
European Literature.
European History.
Modern History.
Gender Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.