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Enclosure acts : sexuality, property, and culture in early modern England
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Enclosure-the conversion of peasants' commonly held lands to privately owned pasture-has long been considered a critical stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This book is the first...
Enclosure-the conversion of peasants' commonly held lands to privately owned pasture-has long been considered a critical stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This book is the first, however, to treat in detail the literary and cultural implications of enclosure in early modern England. Bringing together the work of both senior and younger scholars who represent a wide range of critical orientations, Enclosure Acts focuses not only on the historical fact of land enclosure, but also on the symbolic containment of sexuality in Elizabethan and Jacobean literary works. The first type of enclosure frequently has been treated by materialists and new historicists; feminists and theorists concerned with issues of gender have tended to concentrate on the second. The fourteen essays collected here explore the relationships between these two ways of perceiving enclosure in the context of cultural studies. Individual chapters examine the creation of territorial and social boundaries as well as the consequences of enclosure acts.
Details
- Creator
- Richard Burt, John Archer
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- ©1994
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (352 pages) : 2 halftones
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 1501733591, 9781501733598, 0801480248
- OCLC
- on1129222182
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Burt, Richard / Archer, John Michael -- Part I: Common Grounds: Sexual and Economic Demarcations -- 1. Landlord Not King: Agrarian Change and Interarticulation / Siemon, James R. -- 2. "The Nursery of Beggary": Enclosure, Vagrancy, and Sedition in the Tudor-Stuart Period / Carroll, William C. -- 3. Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness and Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI / Cartelli, Thomas -- 4. Foreign Country: The Place of Women and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Historical World / Rackin, Phyllis -- 5. Shakespeare and the English Witch-Hunts: Enclosing the Maternal Body / Willis, Deborah -- 6. Observations on English Bodies: Licensing Maternity in Shakespeare's Late Plays / Wilson, Richard -- 7. The Poetry of Conduct: Accommodation and Transgression in The Faerie Queene, Book 6 / Schoenfeldt, Michael C. -- 8. Submitting to History: Marlowe's Edward II / Haber, Judith -- 9. The 1599 Bishops' Ban, Elizabethan Pornography, and the Sexualization of the Jacobean Stage / Boose, Lynda E. -- Part II: Boundary Disputes: Consequences of Consolidation -- 10. This Is Not a Pipe: Water Supply, Incontinent Sources, and the Leaky Body Politic / Harris, Jonathan Gil -- 11. The Enclosure of Virginity: The Poetics of Sexual Abstinence in the English Revolution / Rogers, John -- 12. The Garden Enclosed / The Woman Enclosed: Marvell and the Cavalier Poets / Malcolmson, Cristina -- 13. The Garden State: Marvell's Poetics of Enclosure / Crewe, Jonathan -- 14. Dictionary English and the Female Tongue / Fleming, Juliet -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Subjects
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women.
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Social problems in literature.
- Property in literature.
- Renaissance -- England.
- Sex in literature.