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Author:

Dowd, Michelle M., 1975-

Title:

Women's work in early modern English literature and culture / Michelle M. Dowd.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xv, 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
Working class women in literature.
Work in literature.
Labor in literature.
Housekeeping in literature.
Working class women--England--History--17th century.
Literature and society--England--History--17th century.
Women--England--Social conditions--17th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-245) and index.

Contents:

Labors of love: female servants and the marriage plot -- The spatial syntax of midwifery and wet-nursing -- Divine drudgery: the spiritual logic of housework -- Household pedagogies: female educators and the language of legacy.

Series:

Early modern cultural studies

ISBN:

9780230613454 (alk. paper)
0230613454 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244481243

LCCN:

2008035854

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)