Enclosure Acts : : Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 2 halftones
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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

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