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Renaissance Culture and the Everyday /

It was not unusual during the Renaissance for cooks to torture animals before slaughtering them in order to render the meat more tender, for women to use needlepoint to cover up their misconduct and prove their obedience, and for people to cover the walls of their own homes with graffiti.Items and a...

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Otros Autores: Hunt, Simon, 1967- (Editor ), Fumerton, Patricia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1999]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Cover; Renaissance Culture and the Everyday; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1. Introduction: A New New Historicism; Part I: Materials of the Everyday; 2. The ""I"" of the Beholder: Renaissance Mirrors and the Reflexive Mind; 3. ""Reasonable Creatures"": William Cavendish and the Art of Dressage; 4. ""Pox on Your Distinction!"": Humanist Reformation and Deformations of the Everyday in The Staple of News; 5. Homely Accents: Ben Jonson Speaking Low; Part II: The Everyday Making of Women; 6. Everyday Life, Longevity, and Nuns in Early Modern Florence.
  • 7. Constructing the Female Self: Architectural Structures in Mary Wroth's Urania8. The Buck Basket, the Witch, and the Queen of Fairies: The Women's World of Shakespeare's Windsor; 9. Three Ways to be Invisible in the Renaissance: Sex, Reputation, and Stitchery; 10. Household Chastisements: Gender, Authority, and ""Domestic Violence""; Part III: Everyday Transgressions; 11. Money and the Regulation of Desire: The Prostitute and the Marketplace in Seventeenth-Century Holland; 12. Reorganizing Knowledge: A Feminist Scholar's Everyday Relation to the Florentine Past.
  • 13. ""The Catastrophe Is a Nuptial"": Love)s Labor)s Lost, Tactics, Everyday Life14. ""Leaving Out the Insurrection"": Carnival Rebellion, English History Plays, and a Hermeneutics of Advocacy; 15. Graffiti, Grammatology, and the Age of Shakespeare; List of Contributors; Index; Acknowledgments.