Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain: Literary and Historical Explorations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781472410450)

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of 'transgressive' women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Author: Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
ISBN-10: 1472410459
ISBN-13: 9781472410450
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2014
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d