The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in 16th Century England

ISBN-13: 9780415162616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 308 str.

Lorna Hutson

Opis

This volume examines the area of 16th-century literature, covering a wide range of classical and continental as well as English texts, including Shakespeare. It aims to reveal the links between the complex legal and economic workings of 16th-century culture and the representation of women in the literature of this period.

Recenzje

`A major work of impressive scholarship that many people will find of value.' - Sixteenth Century Journal

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION The signs of friendship Part I Mental husbandry 1 THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS 2 ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP The textuality of amicitial Part II Anxieties of textual access 3 FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO PRUDENT CAPTAIN Masculinity and ‘romantic’ fiction 4 USURERS’ DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s Part III The theatre of clandestine marriage 5 HOUSEHOLD STUFF 6 WHY DO SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN HAVE ‘CHARACTERS’? Shylock: Why this usurer has a daughter

O autorze

Lorna Hutson is a Lecturer in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.