Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form in England, 1588-1688

by Mihoko Suzuki

Book Overview

Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of political equality. Subordinate Subjects traces to the end of Elizabeth Tudor's reign in the 1590s the origin of this imaginary, analyses its flowering during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138383406
• ISBN13: 9781138383401
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"