Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500-1700

By: Cristina Malcolmson (Editor), Mihoko Suzuki (Editor)

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Paperback | 3 August 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This volume explores the construction of gender ideology in early modern England through an analysis of the "querelle des femmes" - the debate about the relationship between the sexes that originated on the continent during the middle ages and the Renaissance and developed in England into the Swetnam controversy, which revolved around the publication of Joseph Swetnam's "The Arraignment of Lewd, Forward, and Inconstant Women" and the pamphlets which responded to its misogynist attacks. The volume contextualizes the debate in terms of its continental antecedents and elite manuscript circulation in England and then moves to consider popular culture and printed texts from the Jacobean debate and its effects on women's writing and the developing discourse on gender. It concludes with an examination of the ramifications of the debate during the Civil War and Restoration. The essays included here focus attention on the implications of the gender debate for women writers and their literary relations, cultural ideology and the family, and political discourse and ideas of nationhood.

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"...this volume establishes a threshold of excellence that will become the ideal for later scholarship to emulate." - A.C. Labriola, Choice

"This is a rich and unusual collection of essays. The book differs strikingly from most collections of essays because it not only studies past debates focused on questions of gender but also stages - in an intelligent, well-controlled, but refreshingly sharp way - a modern critical activity of debating gender. The editors introduction is superb, as are their strategies for organizing this set of highly original and cogently-argued essays." - Margaret Ferguson, University of California at Davis

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
About the Contributors	p. ix
Series Editor's Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Manuscript and Debate
Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies in Early Modern England	p. 15
Anne Southwell and the Pamphlet Debate: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Manuscript	p. 37
Print, Pedagogy, and the Question of Class
Muzzling the Competition: Rachel Speght and the Economics of Print	p. 57
Women's Popular Culture? Teaching the Swetnam Controversy	p. 79
Women's Subjectivity in Male-Authored Texts
The Broadside Ballad and the Woman's Voice	p. 103
"Weele have a Wench shall be our Poet": Samuel Rowlands' Gossip Pamphlets	p. 121
Generic Departures: Figuring the Maternal Body, Constructing Female Culture
The Mat(t)er of Death: The Defense of Eve and the Female Ars Moriendi	p. 141
"Hens should be served first": Prioritizing Maternal Production in the Early Modern Pamphlet Debate	p. 161
Cross-Dressed Women and Natural Mothers: "Boundary Panic" in Hic Mulier	p. 185
Politics, State, and Nation
Monstrous Births and the Body Politic: Women's Political Writings and the Strange and Wonderful Travails of Mistris Parliament and Mris. Rump	p. 209
Elizabeth, Gender, and the Political Imaginary of Seventeenth-Century England	p. 231
Index	p. 255
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