Domestic arrangements in early modern England
By: edited by Kari Boyd McBride.
Contributors: McBride, Kari Boyd.
Series: Medieval & Renaissance literary studies; Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Manners and customs in literature; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Domestic relations in literature; Parent and child in literature; Married people in literature; Marriage in literature; Family in literature; Home in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Those whom god hath joined together": bondage metaphors and marital advice in early modern England / Sid Ray; title: "Bisket of love, which crumbles all away": the failure of domestic metaphor in Margaret Cavendish's poetic fancies / Katharine Capshaw Smith; title: The "undividable incorporate": householding in The comedy of errors / Jessica Slights; title: "That dead commodity, a wife": sexual and domestic economy in Aphra Behn's comedies / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez; title: Bloody relations: murderous wives in the street literature of seventeenth century England / Susan C. Staub; title: "The infant of your care": guardianship in Shakespeare's Richard III and early modern England / Heather Dubrow; title: "She is herself a dowry": King Lear and the problem of female entitlement in early modern England / Stephanie Chamberlain; title: Multiple parenting in Shakespeare's romances / Marianne Novy; title: Profitable children: children as commodities in early modern England / Claire M. Busse; title: Cockering mothers and humanist pedagogy in two Tudor school plays / Ursula Potter.