The Usurer's Daughter : Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in 16th Century England.
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The Usurer's Daughter : Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in 16th Century England.
Author:
Hutson, Lorna.
ISBN:
9780203215609
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on transcriptions, references and abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION The signs of friendship -- Mental husbandry -- THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS -- ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP The textuality of amicitia -- Anxieties of textual access -- FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO PRUDENT CAPTAIN Masculinity and 'romantic' fiction -- USURERS' DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s -- The theatre of clandestine marriage -- HOUSEHOLD STUFF Terence in the Reformation -- WHY DO SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN HAVE 'CHARACTERS'? Error, credit and sex in The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew -- CONCLUSION Shylock: Why this usurer has a daughter -- Notes -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.
Abstract:
In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. The Usurer's Daughter: * provides startling new readings of Shakespeare * takes an entirely new approach to classical scholarship * focuses attention on the central importance of the history of the representation of women * illuminates how social relations between men were textualised during the early modern period.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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