Richard Hillman, Pauline Ruberry-Blanc

Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

Literary and Historical Explorations

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Produktbeschreibung

Containing wide-ranging reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume presents a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The contributors illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781472410450
• ISBN-10: 1472410459
• Artikelnr.: 45375139

Autorenporträt

Richard Hillman is Professor of English, Centre d'ÿtudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais de Tours/CNRS, France. Pauline Ruberry-Blanc is Senior Lecturer in English, Centre d'ÿtudes Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université François-Rabelais de Tours/CNRS, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Richard Hillman
Pauline Ruberry-Blanc; Part I Imag(in)ing Female Transgression and Transgressors; Chapter 1 Criminalizing the Woman's Incest: Pericles and Its Analogues
Richard Hillman; Chapter 2 Body Crimes: The Witches
Lady Macbeth and the Relics
Diane Purkiss; Chapter 3 The Witch of Edmonton: The Witch Next Door or Faustian Anti-Heroine?
Pauline Ruberry-Blanc; Chapter 4 Fact versus Fiction: The Construction of the Figure of the Prostitute in Early Modern England
Official and Popular Discourses
Frédérique Fouassier-Tate; Chapter 5 Appropriating a Famous Female Offender: Mary Frith (1584?-1659)
alias Moll Cutpurse
Pascale Drouet; Part II Reading (into) the Social Picture; Chapter 6 Mothers
Wives and Killers: Marital Status and Homicide in London
1674-1790
Marisha Caswell; Chapter 7 Women and Violence in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England: Evidence from the Cheshire Court of Great Sessions
James Sharpe; Chapter 8 'Angels with Dirty Faces': Violent Women in Early Modern Scotland
Anne-Marie Kilday; Chapter 9
Jennine Hurl-Eamon; Chapter 10
Krista Kesselring;