Gender and representations of the female subject in early modern England : creating their own meanings / Akiko Kusunoki.
"This book examines the engagement of Jacobean culture with the possibilities of female desire for self-actualization and self-expression. The tension arising from the disparity between the social norms of womanhood and what women actually thought about themselves was especially intense in earl...
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Palgrave Shakespeare studies.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Concepts of Womanhood in Early Modern England; 1 Emerging New Attitudes towards Women in Early Jacobean England; 2 Female Selfhood and Ideologies of Marriage in Early Jacobean Drama: The Duchess of Malfi and The Tragedy of Mariam; 3 Lady Mary Wroth and Ideologies of Marriage in Late Jacobean England; 4 Representing Elizabeth I in Jacobean England; 5 Women and Publishing Their Works in the Late Jacobean Years; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.