Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law

Reconstructs the everyday life of women in the early modern period through the traces they left in the records of English courts of lawApplies a literary lens to early modern legal records (bills, answers, depositions)Reads legal records alongside more recognisable forms of women’s life-writingGains...

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Main Author: Fikkers, Lotte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2025
Edition:1
Subjects:
17th Century
LAW / General
Literary Criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Studies
Modern
Subjects & Themes
Women
Women Authors
Literary Studies
ISBN:1399538152, 9781399538152
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- Notes and Conventions -- Introduction: Tracing Early Modern Women's Lives -- 1. Constraints of the Courtroom and its Records -- 2. Courtship and Marriage -- 3. Sex and Slander -- 4. Widows -- 5. Afterlives: Case Studies in the Production of Alternative Truths -- Conclusion: Shared Strategies in Women's Self-Representation -- Bibliography -- Index
  • Conclusion: Shared Strategies in Women’s Self-Representation --
  • Contents --
  • Chapter 3 Sex and Slander --
  • Chapter 5 Afterlives: Case Studies in the Production of Alternative Truths --
  • Index
  • Chapter 1 Constraints of the Courtroom and its Records --
  • Acknowledgements --
  • Notes and Conventions --
  • Introduction: Tracing Early Modern Women’s Lives --
  • Chapter 4 Widows --
  • Series Editors’ Preface --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Chapter 2 Courtship and Marriage --
  • Bibliography --