Women's work in early modern English literature and culture /

Dowd, Michelle M., 1975-

Women's work in early modern English literature and culture / Michelle M. Dowd. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - xv, 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Early modern cultural studies . - Early modern cultural studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Labors of love: female servants and the marriage plot -- The spatial syntax of midwifery and wetnursing -- Divine drudgery: the spiritual logic of housework -- Household pedagogies: female educators and the language of legacy.

9780230613454 0230613454 (alk. paper)

2008035854


English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Working class women in literature.
Work in literature.
Labor in literature.
Housekeeping in literature.
Working class women--History--England--17th century.
Literature and society--History--England--17th century.
Women--Social conditions--England--17th century.

PR428.W63 / D68 2009

820.9/9287

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