Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England /
Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England /
edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, A.R. Buck.
- 1 online resource (x, 316 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Temporal gestation, legal contracts, and the promissory economies of The winter's tale / Putting women in their place : female litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 / Women's property, popular cultures, and the consistory court of London in the eighteenth century / The whore's estate : Sally Salisbury, prostitution, and property in eighteenth-century London / Primogeniture, patrilineage, and the displacement of women / Isabella's rule : singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure / Marriage, identity, and the pursuit of property in seventeenth-century England : the cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman / Cordelia's estate : women and the law of property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate / Writing home : Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden letters, and household epistolary practice / Women's wills in early modern England / Spiritual property : the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and the dispute over the Baker manuscripts / The titular claims of female surnames in eighteenth-century fiction / Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property / Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson -- Patricia Parker -- Christine Churches -- David Lemmings -- Laura J. Rosenthal -- Mary Murray -- Natasha Korda -- Mary Chan, Nancy E. Wright -- A.R. Buck -- Jennifer Summit -- Lloyd Davis -- Claire Walker -- Eleanor F. Shevlin -- Paul Salzman -- Margreta de Grazia. Introduction / Afterword /
"Women, Property, and the Letters of Law in Early Modern England examines the competing narratives of property told by and about women in the early modern period. Through letters, legal treatises, case law, wills, and works of literature, the contributors explore women's complex roles as subjects and agents in commercial and domestic economies, and as objects shaped by a network of social and legal relationships. By constructing conversations across the disciplinary boundaries of legal and social history, sociology, and literary criticism, the collection explores a diverse range of women's property relationships." "Recent research has revealed fissures in our knowledge about women's property relationships within a regime characterized by competing jurisdictions, diverse systems of nature, and multiple concepts of property. Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period. This interdisciplinary analysis of women and property is written in an accessible manner and will become a valuable resource for scholars and students of Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century literature, early modern social and legal history, and women's studies."--Jacket.
9781442683600 (electronic bk.) 1442683600 (electronic bk.) 1281994316 9781281994318 (bound)
22573/ctt536mb JSTOR
Since 1500
Geschichte 1660-1800
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Women and literature--History--England--16th century.
Women and literature--History--England--17th century.
Women and literature--History--England--18th century.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--England
Women--History--England--Modern period, 1600-
Law and literature--History--16th century.
Law and literature--History--17th century.
Law and literature--History--18th century.
Right of property--History.--England
Property in literature.
Law in literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--England--Sources.
Right of property--History--England--Sources.
Women--History--England--Modern period, 1600---Sources.
Femmes--Droit--Histoire.--Angleterre
Droit de propriété--Histoire.--Angleterre
Femmes--Angleterre--Histoire--1600-
Femmes--Droit--Histoire--Angleterre--Sources.
Droit de propriété--Histoire--Angleterre--Sources.
Femmes--Histoire--Angleterre--1600---Sources.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--16e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--17e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--18e siècle.
Femmes--Histoire--Angleterre--1600-
Droit et littérature--Histoire--16e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--17e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--18e siècle.
Droit dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY--Renaissance.
English literature--Early modern.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Property in literature.
Right of property.
Women and literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Modern period.
Literatur
Frau
Besitz
Eigentum
Frau
England.
England
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR428.L37 / W66 2004 KD811 / .W64 2004
820.9/3522 305.42/0942/0903
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Temporal gestation, legal contracts, and the promissory economies of The winter's tale / Putting women in their place : female litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 / Women's property, popular cultures, and the consistory court of London in the eighteenth century / The whore's estate : Sally Salisbury, prostitution, and property in eighteenth-century London / Primogeniture, patrilineage, and the displacement of women / Isabella's rule : singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure / Marriage, identity, and the pursuit of property in seventeenth-century England : the cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman / Cordelia's estate : women and the law of property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate / Writing home : Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden letters, and household epistolary practice / Women's wills in early modern England / Spiritual property : the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and the dispute over the Baker manuscripts / The titular claims of female surnames in eighteenth-century fiction / Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property / Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson -- Patricia Parker -- Christine Churches -- David Lemmings -- Laura J. Rosenthal -- Mary Murray -- Natasha Korda -- Mary Chan, Nancy E. Wright -- A.R. Buck -- Jennifer Summit -- Lloyd Davis -- Claire Walker -- Eleanor F. Shevlin -- Paul Salzman -- Margreta de Grazia. Introduction / Afterword /
"Women, Property, and the Letters of Law in Early Modern England examines the competing narratives of property told by and about women in the early modern period. Through letters, legal treatises, case law, wills, and works of literature, the contributors explore women's complex roles as subjects and agents in commercial and domestic economies, and as objects shaped by a network of social and legal relationships. By constructing conversations across the disciplinary boundaries of legal and social history, sociology, and literary criticism, the collection explores a diverse range of women's property relationships." "Recent research has revealed fissures in our knowledge about women's property relationships within a regime characterized by competing jurisdictions, diverse systems of nature, and multiple concepts of property. Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period. This interdisciplinary analysis of women and property is written in an accessible manner and will become a valuable resource for scholars and students of Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century literature, early modern social and legal history, and women's studies."--Jacket.
9781442683600 (electronic bk.) 1442683600 (electronic bk.) 1281994316 9781281994318 (bound)
22573/ctt536mb JSTOR
Since 1500
Geschichte 1660-1800
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Women and literature--History--England--16th century.
Women and literature--History--England--17th century.
Women and literature--History--England--18th century.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.--England
Women--History--England--Modern period, 1600-
Law and literature--History--16th century.
Law and literature--History--17th century.
Law and literature--History--18th century.
Right of property--History.--England
Property in literature.
Law in literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--England--Sources.
Right of property--History--England--Sources.
Women--History--England--Modern period, 1600---Sources.
Femmes--Droit--Histoire.--Angleterre
Droit de propriété--Histoire.--Angleterre
Femmes--Angleterre--Histoire--1600-
Femmes--Droit--Histoire--Angleterre--Sources.
Droit de propriété--Histoire--Angleterre--Sources.
Femmes--Histoire--Angleterre--1600---Sources.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--16e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--17e siècle.
Femmes et littérature--Histoire--Angleterre--18e siècle.
Femmes--Histoire--Angleterre--1600-
Droit et littérature--Histoire--16e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--17e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--18e siècle.
Droit dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY--Renaissance.
English literature--Early modern.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Property in literature.
Right of property.
Women and literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Modern period.
Literatur
Frau
Besitz
Eigentum
Frau
England.
England
Englisch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR428.L37 / W66 2004 KD811 / .W64 2004
820.9/3522 305.42/0942/0903