Class and Gender in Early English Literature

Class and Gender in Early English Literature
Title Class and Gender in Early English Literature PDF eBook
Author Britton J. Harwood
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 184
Release 1994
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780253208583

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"[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often applied to such literature." --Women's Studies Network (UK) Association Newsletter These dramatic new readings of Old and Middle English texts explore the rich theoretical territory at the intersection of class and gender, and highlight the interplay of the critic, methodology, and the medieval text.

Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature

Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature
Title Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature PDF eBook
Author Jennifer Munroe
Publisher Routledge
Pages 271
Release 2017-03-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1351934759

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Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new opportunities for social mobility. While recent work has addressed how middle class men used the garden to attain this mobility, the gendering of the garden during the period has gone largely unexamined. This new study focuses on the developing gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status. The first part of the book focuses on how practical gardening books proposed methods for planting as they simultaneously represented gardens increasingly hierarchized by gender. The second part of the book looks at how men and women appropriated aesthetic uses of actual gardening in their poetry, and reveals a parallel gendered tension there. Munroe analyzes garden representations in the writings of such manuals writers as Gervase Markham, Thomas Hill, and William Lawson, and such poets as Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer and Lady Mary Wroth. Investigating gardens, gender and writing, Jennifer Munroe considers not only published literary representations of gardens, but also actual garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of everyday gardening practice. She de-prioritizes the text as a primary means of cultural production, showing instead the relationship between what men and women might imagine possible and represent in their writing, and everyday spatial practices and the spaces men and women occupied and made. In so doing, she also broadens our outlook on whom we can identify and value as producers of early modern social space.

Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
Title Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture PDF eBook
Author Will Fisher
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 94
Release 2006-07-06
Genre Drama
ISBN 0521858518

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Analyses the construction of gender through bodily elements and clothing in early modern England.

Language of Gender and Class

Language of Gender and Class
Title Language of Gender and Class PDF eBook
Author Patricia Ingham
Publisher Routledge
Pages 208
Release 2002-09-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1134891342

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The Language of Gender and Class challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. Lucid, multilayered and cogently argued, this volume will provoke debate and encourage students and scholars to rethink their views on ninteenth-century literature. Examining six novels, Patricia Ingham demonstrates that none of the writers, male or female, easily accept stereotypes of gender and class. The classic figures of Angel and Whore are reassessed and modified. And the result, argues Ingham, is that the treatment of gender by the late nineteenth century is released from its task of containing neutralising class conflict. New accounts of feminity can begin to emerge. The novels which Ingham studies are: * Shirley by Charlotter Bronte * North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell * Felix Holt by George Eliot * Hard Times by Charles Dickens * The Unclassed by George Gissing * Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Literature by the Working Class

Literature by the Working Class
Title Literature by the Working Class PDF eBook
Author Cassandra Falke
Publisher
Pages 234
Release 2013
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781604978452

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Viewing all of these stories together, Falke captures the richness of working-class culture, the bravery of these authors' persistence, and the fecundity of their literary imaginations. Literature by the Working Class proposes a way to read working-class autobiographies that attends to both the socio-historical influences on their composition and their value as individual literary works. Although social historians, reading historians, and historians of rhetoric have recognized the significance of working-class autobiography to the early nineteenth century, providing broad overviews of the genre, very little work has been done to read these works as literature. Part of this negligence arises for the style of these autobiographies. They reject notions of autonomous selfhood and linear self-creation that characterize other Romantic period autobiographical works.

A Life Both Public and Private

A Life Both Public and Private
Title A Life Both Public and Private PDF eBook
Author Brent R. LaPadula
Publisher McFarland
Pages 199
Release 2018-11-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1476673950

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The concept of the individual or the self, central in so many modern-day contexts, has not been investigated in depth in the Anglo-Saxon period. Focusing on Old English poetry, the author argues that a singular, Anglo-Saxon sense of self may be found by analyzing their surviving verse. The concept of the individual, with an identity outside of her community, is clearly evident during this period, and the widely accepted view that the individual as we understand it did not really exist until the Renaissance does not stand up to scrutiny.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Title The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature PDF eBook
Author David Scott Kastan
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 2656
Release 2006-03-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0199725314

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From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl