Women's work in early modern English literature and culture
By: Michelle M. Dowd.
Series: Early modern cultural studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Working class women in literature; Work in literature; Labor in literature; Housekeeping in literature; Working class women -- England -- History -- 17th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Labors of love: female servants and the marriage plot; title: The spatial syntax of midwifery and wetnursing; title: Divine drudgery: the spiritual logic of housework; title: Household pedagogies: female educators and the language of legacy.