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

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Richard Burt, John Archer
Cornell University Press, 7. 6. 2019 - Počet stran: 352

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.

 

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Introduction
1
COMMON GROUNDS
15
Enclosure Vagrancy
34
Class Consciousness
48
The Place of Women and Sexuality
68
Licensing
121
Accommodation
151
Marlowes Edward II
170
The 1599 Bishops Ban Elizabethan Pornography
185
BOUNDARY DISPUTES
201
The Poetics of Sexual
229
Marvells Poetics of Enclosure
270
Dictionary English and the Female Tongue
290
Notes on Contributors
327
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O autorovi (2019)

Richard Burt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. John Michael Archer is Associate Professor of English at Columbia University.

Bibliografické údaje

NázevEnclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England
RedaktořiRichard Burt, John Archer
VydavatelCornell University Press, 2019
ISBN1501733591, 9781501733598
DélkaPočet stran: 352
  
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