Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
About the Book Series
The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a decade now, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World has served as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this Routledge series strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and edited collections which expand and develop this continually evolving field of study.
Maternity and Romance Narratives in Early Modern England
1st Edition
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By Karen Bamford, Naomi J. Miller
October 14, 2024
Though recent scholarship has focused both on motherhood and on romance literature in early modern England, until now, no full length volume has addressed the notable intersections between the two topics. This collection contributes to the scholarly investigation of maternity in early modern ...
Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France
1st Edition
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By Lewis C. Seifert, Rebecca M. Wilkin
October 14, 2024
Today the friendships that grab people’s imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristic sources,...
Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry
1st Edition
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By Unn Falkeid, Aileen Feng
October 14, 2024
Despite the fact that Gaspara Stampa (1523?-1554) has been recognized as one of the greatest and most creative poets and musicians of the Italian Renaissance, scholarship on her work has been surprisingly scarce and uncoordinated. In recent years, critical attention towards her work has increased, ...
The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France: Women Writ, Women Writing
1st Edition
By Domna C. Stanton
October 14, 2024
In its six case studies, The Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France works out a model for (early modern) gender, which is articulated in the introduction. The book comprises essays on the construction of women: three in texts by male and three by female writers, including Racine, Fénelon, ...
The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800: Early Modern 'Convents of Pleasure'
1st Edition
By Nicky Hallett
October 14, 2024
Offering a comprehensive analysis of newly-uncovered manuscripts from two English convents near Antwerp, this study gives unprecedented insight into the role of the senses in enclosed religious communities during the period 1600-1800. It draws on a range of previously unpublished ...
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici
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By Una McIlvenna
August 29, 2022
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own ...
Queen Hedwig Eleonora and the Arts: Court Culture in Seventeenth-Century Northern Europe
1st Edition
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By Kristoffer Neville, Lisa Skogh
June 30, 2021
As queen consort and dowager, Hedwig Eleonora (1636–1715) held a unique position in Sweden for more than half a century. As the dominant collector and patron of art and architecture in the realm, she left a strong mark on Swedish court culture. Her dynastic network among the Northern European ...
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450�1690
1st Edition
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By James Daybell, Andrew Gordon
December 12, 2019
Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a ...
Women and Shakespeare's Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal
1st Edition
By Cristina León Alfar
December 12, 2019
How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease ...
Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799
1st Edition
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By Mónica Díaz, Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
December 12, 2019
Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and ...
Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Marie Cruz Petersen
December 12, 2019
Drawing from early modern plays and treatises on the precepts and practices of the acting process, this study shows how the early modern Spanish actress subscribed to various somatic practices in an effort to prepare for a role. It provides today's reader not only another perspective to the ...
Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Edith Snook
June 10, 2019
A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts,...