Dangerous Familiars : : Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 / / frances E. Dolan.
Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventee...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. "Home-rebels and House-traitors": Petty Treason and the Murderous Wife
- II. The Subordinate('s) Plot: Petty Treason and the Forms of Domestic Rebellion
- III. Revolutions, Petty Tyranny, and the Murderous Husband
- IV. Finding What Has Been "Lost": Representations oflnfanticide and The Winter's Ta/.e
- V. Witchcraft and the Threat of the Familiar
- Epilogue
- Index