Performing privacy and gender in early modern literature
By: Mary E. Trull
Series: Early modern literature in history; Early modern literature in history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781137282989
Subjects: English literature; History and criticism; Privacy in literature; Women in literature
Description: This book analyzes how authors disrupt conventions about women's privacy and its proper limits in genres from household order to fiction, poetry, and drama. The author also links early modern privacy to digital media and Facebook.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing privacy and early modern women --; title: Private lament in Calvin, Knox, and Anne Lock --; title: Privacy and gender in household orders --; title: Shakespeare's All's well that ends well : mastery and publicity --; title: Marriage and private lament in Mary Wroth's Urania --; title: Interest and retirement in Aphra Ben's Odes --; title: Performing privacy on Facebook.