Attending to Women in Early Modern EnglandBetty Travitsky, Adele F. Seeff "This volume contains the edited proceedings from the 1990 symposium "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," which was sponsored by the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies and the University of Maryland at College Park. Edited by Betty S. Travitsky and Adele F. Seeff in collaboration with a national committee of scholars, the book focuses on the interdisciplinary study of women in early modern England, addressing such areas of scholarly concern as what new research concepts can guide scholarship on early modern women? How were the public and private identities of these women constructed? What were the similarities between visible and invisible women in early modern England? How can - and should - studies on early modern women transform the classroom?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... social historians , as Susan Amussen notes , became a dominant group of historical researchers ; early efforts by both literary and historical scholars to recover obscured groups and writings and to interrogate received notions about ...
... social historians , as Susan Amussen notes , became a dominant group of historical researchers ; early efforts by both literary and historical scholars to recover obscured groups and writings and to interrogate received notions about ...
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... social history , and psychol- ogy to a large , intent audience of Renaissance scholars and indicated unmistakably that Renaissance gender studies had achieved respectability . " Like the earlier conferences at Yale and at the Newberry ...
... social history , and psychol- ogy to a large , intent audience of Renaissance scholars and indicated unmistakably that Renaissance gender studies had achieved respectability . " Like the earlier conferences at Yale and at the Newberry ...
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... social and political structure that prevailed in the time and place of their origins . Salo- mon proposes that Elizabeth attempted to control the meaning of her images in an unprecedented application to a female monarch in England . She ...
... social and political structure that prevailed in the time and place of their origins . Salo- mon proposes that Elizabeth attempted to control the meaning of her images in an unprecedented application to a female monarch in England . She ...
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... social historians , Dubrow also shows that answering historical questions can illuminate the contours of Shakespearean plots , notably the restoration of mothers and wives . In " Eulogies for Women : Public Testimony of their Godly Exam ...
... social historians , Dubrow also shows that answering historical questions can illuminate the contours of Shakespearean plots , notably the restoration of mothers and wives . In " Eulogies for Women : Public Testimony of their Godly Exam ...
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Betty Travitsky, Adele F. Seeff. scripted social performance . He indicates that these life - cycle events varied with social rank and position , and that their meaning was different for women and men . Perhaps , as Anne Lake Prescott ...
Betty Travitsky, Adele F. Seeff. scripted social performance . He indicates that these life - cycle events varied with social rank and position , and that their meaning was different for women and men . Perhaps , as Anne Lake Prescott ...
Contents
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Attending to Early Modern Women in an Interdisciplinary Way | 96 |
Workshop Summaries 18 | 103 |
II | 121 |
The Scholar of Womens History as Penelope among Her Suitors | 123 |
III | 145 |
Parental Death in Tudor and Stuart England | 147 |
High ArtLow Art in the Imagery of Early Modern Europe | 241 |
Attending to Literacy | 265 |
Workshop Summaries 1826 | 280 |
V | 299 |
Ownership of the Canon | 301 |
Responses to a Pedagogy Survey | 319 |
Pedagogy Workshop Summaries 14 | 336 |
VI | 341 |
Public Testimony of Their Godly Example and Leadership | 168 |
Private Lives Public Performance and Rites of Passage | 187 |
Workshop Summaries 917 | 198 |
IV | 217 |
Gender Class and the Exceptional Woman in Early Modern England | 219 |
A Script and Its Evolution | 343 |
Contributors | 356 |
Select Bibliography | 360 |
Index | 371 |
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Page 82 - ... next came the Queen, in the sixty-fifth year of her age, as we were told, very majestic; her face oblong, fair but wrinkled; her eyes small, yet black and pleasant, her nose a little hooked; her lips narrow, and her teeth black (a defect the English seem subject to, from their too great use of sugar...
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