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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain book

Literary and Historical Explorations

Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

DOI link for Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain book

Literary and Historical Explorations
ByRichard Hillman, Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582153
Pages 236 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315582153
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature
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Hillman, R., Ruberry-Blanc, P. (2014). Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315582153

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

ByRichard Hillman, Pauline Ruberry-Blanc

part |2 pages

PART I Imag(in)ing Female Transgression and Transgressors

chapter 1|14 pages

Criminalizing the Woman’s Incest: Pericles and Its Analogues

ByRichard Hillman

chapter 2|22 pages

Body Crimes: The Witches, Lady Macbeth and the Relics

ByDiane Purkiss

chapter 3|20 pages

The Witch of Edmonton: The Witch Next Door or Faustian Anti-Heroine?

ByPauline Ruberry-Blanc

chapter 4|20 pages

Fact versus Fiction: The Construction of the Figure of the Prostitute in Early Modern England, Official and Popular Discourses

ByFrédérique Fouassier-Tate

chapter 5|14 pages

Appropriating a Famous Female Offender: Mary Frith (1584?–1659), alias Moll Cutpurse

ByPascale Drouet

part |2 pages

Part II Reading (into) the Social Picture

chapter 6|20 pages

Mothers, Wives and Killers: Marital Status and Homicide in London, 1674–1790

ByMarisha Caswell

chapter 7|14 pages

Women and Violence in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England: Evidence from the Cheshire Court of Great Sessions

ByJames Sharpe

chapter 8|22 pages

‘Angels with Dirty Faces’: Violent Women in Early Modern Scotland

ByScotland Anne-Marie Kilday

chapter 9|28 pages

‘The lowest and most abandoned trull of a soldier’: The Crime of Bastardy in Early Eighteenth-Century London

ByJennine Hurl-Eamon

chapter 10|22 pages

Coverture and Criminal Forfeiture in English Law

ByKrista Kesselring
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