Women's work in early modern English literature and culture

Title:

Women's work in early modern English literature and culture

Author:

Dowd, Michelle M., 1975-

Publication Information:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Format:

Books

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

Carrier Type:

xv, 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject Term:

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.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008035854.html

ISBN:

9780230613454

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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.

List of Figures	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
A Note on the Text	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
1 Labors of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot	p. 21
2 The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wet-Nursing	p. 57
3 Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework	p. 95
4 Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy	p. 133
Epilogue	p. 173
Notes	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 221
Index	p. 247

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