Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England (Early Modern Cultural Studies)

Contents......Page 6
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Venerable Patriarchs/Vulnerable Patriarchs......Page 28
1 Apprentice Riots in Early Modern London......Page 30
2 “But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London......Page 54
3 “Writing Rape, Raping Rites”: Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems......Page 80
4 Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder......Page 104
Part II: Gender and State Violence......Page 136
5 Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich......Page 138
6 Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England......Page 160
7 Executing the Body Politic: Inscribing State Violence onto Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko......Page 186
8 London’s Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution, and Questions of Evidence......Page 220
9 “I Will Forgive You if the World Will”: Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690–1750......Page 236
Afterword......Page 262
B......Page 268
C......Page 269
F......Page 270
H......Page 271
L......Page 272
N......Page 273
R......Page 274
S......Page 275
T......Page 276
Z......Page 277