Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
eBook - PDF

Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. A Note on the Text
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Labors of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot
  9. 2 The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wet-Nursing
  10. 3 Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework
  11. 4 Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy
  12. Epilogue
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index