The impact of feminism in English Renaissance studies /
edited by Dympna Callaghan.
- xiii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cleopatran affinities : Helene Cixous, Margaret Cavendish, and the writing of dialogic matter / Jonathan Gil Harris -- Confessing mothers : the maternal penitent in early modern revenge tragedy / Heather Hirschfield -- Feminist criticism and the new formalism : early modern women and literary engagement / Sasha Roberts -- Ophelia's sisters / R.S. White -- Sex and the early modern city : staging the bawdy houses of London / Jean E. Howard -- Women, gender, and the politics of location / Kate Chedgzoy -- The 'difference ... in degree' : social rank and gendered expression / Kimberly Anne Coles -- A new fable of the belly : vulgar curiosity and the Persian lady's loose bodies / Pamela Allen Brown -- Construing gender : mastering Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew / Patricia Parker -- Hermione's ghost : Catholicism, the feminine, and the undead / Frances E. Dolan -- No man's Elizabeth : Frances A. Yates and the history of history / Deanne Williams -- Women's informal commerce and the 'all-male' stage / Natasha Korda -- Why did widows remarry? Remarriage, male authority, and feminist criticism / Jennifer Panek -- 'I desire to be held in your memory' : reading Penelope Rich through her letters / Grace Ioppolo -- Hormonal conclusions / Gail Kern Paster.
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Feminist criticism Renaissance Feminism and literature Women--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600. Sex role--History--16th century. European literature--History and criticism--Renaissance, 1450-1600