Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England /

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"Women, Property, and the Letters of Law in Early Modern England examines the competing narratives of property told by and about women in the early modern period. Through letters, legal treatises, case law, wills, and works of literature, the contributors explore women's complex roles as s...

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Otros Autores: Wright, Nancy E. (Editor ), Buck, A. R. (Editor ), Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2004]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Frau
Eigentum
Besitz > Motiv
Frau > Motiv
Literatur
Women > Modern period.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Women and literature.
Right of property.
Property in literature.
Law in literature.
Law and literature.
English literature > Early modern.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Droit dans la litterature.
Droit et litterature > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Droit et litterature > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Droit et litterature > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Femmes > Angleterre > Histoire > 1600-
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siecle.
Femmes et litterature > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Femmes > Angleterre > Histoire > 1600- > Sources.
Droit de propriete > Angleterre > Histoire > Sources.
Femmes > Droit > Angleterre > Histoire > Sources.
Droit de propriete > Angleterre > Histoire.
Femmes > Droit > Angleterre > Histoire.
Women > England > History > Modern period, 1600- > Sources.
Right of property > England > History > Sources.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > England > History > Sources.
Right of property > England > History.
Law and literature > History > 18th century.
Law and literature > History > 17th century.
Law and literature > History > 16th century.
Women > England > History > Modern period, 1600-
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > England > History.
Women and literature > England > History > 18th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 16th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Englisch.
England
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Sources.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson
  • Temporal gestation, legal contracts, and the promissory economies of The winter's tale / Patricia Parker
  • Putting women in their place : female litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 / Christine Churches
  • Women's property, popular cultures, and the consistory court of London in the eighteenth century / David Lemmings
  • The whore's estate : Sally Salisbury, prostitution, and property in eighteenth-century London / Laura J. Rosenthal
  • Primogeniture, patrilineage, and the displacement of women / Mary Murray
  • Isabella's rule : singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure / Natasha Korda
  • Marriage, identity, and the pursuit of property in seventeenth-century England : the cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman / Mary Chan, Nancy E. Wright
  • Cordelia's estate : women and the law of property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate / A.R. Buck
  • Writing home : Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden letters, and household epistolary practice / Jennifer Summit
  • Women's wills in early modern England / Lloyd Davis
  • Spiritual property : the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and the dispute over the Baker manuscripts / Claire Walker
  • The titular claims of female surnames in eighteenth-century fiction / Eleanor F. Shevlin
  • Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property / Paul Salzman
  • Afterword / Margreta de Grazia.

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