Overview
- Addresses a real gap in knowledge in the field: the Early Modern family
- Examines hitherto overlooked non-canonical texts such as parental advice books and housewife manuals
- Features contributions from a wide-range of international (chiefly US and UK) academics, featuring well-known figures alongside earlier career academics
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Succession
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book considers the ways that family relationships (parental, marital, sibling or other) mimic, and stand in for, political ones in the Early Modern period, and vice versa. Bringing together leading international scholars in literary-historical fields to produce scholarship informed by the perspective of contemporary politics, the volume examines the ways in which the family defines itself in transformative moments of potential crisis – birth and death, maturation, marriage – moments when the family is negotiating its position within and through broader cultural frameworks, and when, as a result, family ‘politics’ become most apparent.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hannah Crawforth is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King’s College, London, UK, where she is also a founding member of the London Shakespeare Centre. She is the author of Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature (2013), co-author, with Sarah Dustagheer and Jennifer Young, of Shakespeare in London (2015), and co-editor, with Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, of On Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Poets’ Celebration (2016).
Sarah Lewis is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at King’s College London, UK. She has also lectured at University College Dublin, University of Roehampton, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Shakespeare’s Globe. She is currently working on her first monograph, Time and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Family Politics in Early Modern Literature
Editors: Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51144-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51143-0Published: 13 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51144-7Published: 03 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 270
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, Literary History, British and Irish Literature