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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1. Verfasser:	Fikkers, Lotte
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2025
Ausgabe:	1
Schlagworte:	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
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
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Inhaltsangabe:

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 --