
Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain
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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
part |2 pages
PART I Imag(in)ing Female Transgression and Transgressors
chapter 3|20 pages
The Witch of Edmonton: The Witch Next Door or Faustian Anti-Heroine?
chapter 4|20 pages
Fact versus Fiction: The Construction of the Figure of the Prostitute in Early Modern England, Official and Popular Discourses
chapter 5|14 pages
Appropriating a Famous Female Offender: Mary Frith (1584?–1659), alias Moll Cutpurse
part |2 pages
Part II Reading (into) the Social Picture