Enclosure Acts : : Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England / / ed. by Richard Burt, John Archer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Archer, John Michael,; Boose, Lynda E.,; Burt, Richard,; Carroll, William C.,; Cartelli, Thomas,; Crewe, Jonathan,; Fleming, Juliet,; Haber, Judith,; Harris, Jonathan Gil,; Malcolmson, Cristina,; Rackin, Phyllis,; Rogers, John,; Schoenfeldt, Michael C.,; Siemon, James R.,; Willis, Deborah,; Wilson, Richard,
• HerausgeberIn: Archer, John,; Burt, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 2 halftones

Enclosure—the conversion of peasants' commonly held lands to privately owned pasture—has long been considered a critical stage in the transition from feudalism to capitalism. This book is the first, however, to treat in detail the literary and cultural implications of enclosure in early modern England. Bringing together the work of both senior and younger scholars who represent a wide range of critical orientations, Enclosure Acts focuses not only on the historical fact of land enclosure, but also on the symbolic containment of sexuality in Elizabethan and Jacobean literary works. The first type of enclosure frequently has been treated by materialists and new historicists; feminists and theorists concerned with issues of gender have tended to concentrate on the second. The fourteen essays collected here explore the relationships between these two ways of perceiving enclosure in the context of cultural studies. Individual chapters examine the creation of territorial and social boundaries as well as the consequences of enclosure acts.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Common Grounds: Sexual and Economic Demarcations -- 1. Landlord Not King: Agrarian Change and Interarticulation -- 2. “The Nursery of Beggary”: Enclosure, Vagrancy, and Sedition in the Tudor-Stuart Period -- 3. Jack Cade in the Garden: Class Consciousness and Class Conflict in 2 Henry VI -- 4. Foreign Country: The Place of Women and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Historical World -- 5. Shakespeare and the English Witch-Hunts: Enclosing the Maternal Body -- 6. Observations on English Bodies: Licensing Maternity in Shakespeare’s Late Plays -- 7. The Poetry of Conduct: Accommodation and Transgression in The Faerie Queene, Book 6 -- 8. Submitting to History: Marlowe’s Edward II -- 9. The 1599 Bishops’ Ban, Elizabethan Pornography, and the Sexualization of the Jacobean Stage -- Part II: Boundary Disputes: Consequences of Consolidation -- 10. This Is Not a Pipe: Water Supply, Incontinent Sources, and the Leaky Body Politic -- 11. The Enclosure of Virginity: The Poetics of Sexual Abstinence in the English Revolution -- 12. The Garden Enclosed / The Woman Enclosed: Marvell and the Cavalier Poets -- 13. The Garden State: Marvell’s Poetics of Enclosure -- 14. Dictionary English and the Female Tongue -- Notes on Contributors -- Index