The impact of feminism in English Renaissance studies
By: edited by Dympna Callaghan.
Contributors: Callaghan, Dympna.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781403992123
Subjects: Feminist criticism; Renaissance; Feminism and literature; Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600; Sex role -- History -- 16th century; European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cleopatran affinities : Helene Cixous, Margaret Cavendish, and the writing of dialogic matter / Jonathan Gil Harris; title: Confessing mothers : the maternal penitent in early modern revenge tragedy / Heather Hirschfield; title: Feminist criticism and the new formalism : early modern women and literary engagement / Sasha Roberts; title: Ophelia's sisters / R.S. White; title: Sex and the early modern city : staging the bawdy houses of London / Jean E. Howard; title: Women, gender, and the politics of location / Kate Chedgzoy; title: The 'difference ... in degree' : social rank and gendered expression / Kimberly Anne Coles; title: A new fable of the belly : vulgar curiosity and the Persian lady's loose bodies / Pamela Allen Brown; title: Construing gender : mastering Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew / Patricia Parker; title: Hermione's ghost : Catholicism, the feminine, and the undead / Frances E. Dolan; title: No man's Elizabeth : Frances A. Yates and the history of history / Deanne Williams; title: Women's informal commerce and the 'all-male' stage / Natasha Korda; title: Why did widows remarry? Remarriage, male authority, and feminist criticism / Jennifer Panek; title: 'I desire to be held in your memory' : reading Penelope Rich through her letters / Grace Ioppolo; title: Hormonal conclusions / Gail Kern Paster.