Women, property, and the letters of the law in early modern England / edited by Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson, A.R. Buck.

Other author Ferguson, Margaret W., 1948-
Other author Buck, A. R.
Other author Wright, Nancy E.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoToronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,
Descriptionx, 316 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--England. --History. --16th century.
Women and literature--England. --History. --17th century.
Women and literature--England. --History. --18th century.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc. --England. --History.
Women--England. --History. --Modern period, 1600-.
Law and literature--History. --16th century.
Law and literature--History. --17th century.
Law and literature--History. --18th century.
Right of property--England. --History.
Property in literature.
Law in literature.

Contents Introduction / Nancy E. Wright, Margaret W. Ferguson -- Temporal gestation, legal contracts, and the promissory economies of The winter's tale / Patricia Parker -- Putting women in their place : female litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 / Christine Churches -- Women's property, popular cultures, and the consistory court of London in the eighteenth century / David Lemmings -- The whore's estate : Sally Salisbury, prostitution, and property in eighteenth-century London / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Primogeniture, patrilineage, and the displacement of women / Mary Murray -- Isabella's rule : singlewomen and the properties of poverty in Measure for measure / Natasha Korda -- Marriage, identity, and the pursuit of property in seventeenth-century England : the cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman / Mary Chan, Nancy E. Wright -- Cordelia's estate : women and the law of property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate / A.R. Buck -- Writing home : Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden letters, and household epistolary practice / Jennifer Summit -- Women's wills in early modern England / Lloyd Davis -- Spiritual property : the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and the dispute over the Baker manuscripts / Claire Walker -- The titular claims of female surnames in eighteenth-century fiction / Eleanor F. Shevlin -- Early modern (aristocratic) women and textual property / Paul Salzman -- Afterword / Margreta de Grazia
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LCCN 2004558564
ISBN0802087574 (alk. paper)

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