Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England

By: Ward, Joseph Patrick P.

Book Overview

This book engages in an interdisciplinary study of the establishment and entrenchment of gender roles in early modern England. Drawing upon the methods and sources of literary criticism and social history, this edited volume shows how politics at both the elite and plebeian levels of society involved violence that either resulted from or expressed hostility toward the early modern gender system. Contributors take fresh approaches to prominent works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230609805
• ISBN13: 9780230609808
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"