Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

Literary and Historical Explorations

• Author(s): Richard Hillman, Pauline Ruberry-Blanc,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 236
• ISBN_10: 1317135873
  ISBN_13: 9781317135876
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Medieval , History / Modern / 17th Century , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Renaissance , History / Europe / Renaissance , History / Europe / Great Britain / General ,

Description:... Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.