Nature's Cruel Stepdames
Subtitle: Murderous Women In The  Street Literature Of Seventeenth Century England (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780820703565
Subjects: Literature: History & Criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 17th century; Early modern, 1500-1700; England; English literature; History; History and criticism; Street literature; Women and literature
Description: "A selection of seventeenth century pamphlets revealing the popular press's obsessive concern with female violence--usually domestic--and a discussion of the texts' historical and cultural contexts"--Provided by publisher.