The Usurer's Daughter : Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in 16th Century England.

By: Hutson, LornaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (306 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780203215609Subject(s): English literature -- Classical influences | English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism | Friendship in literature | Masculinity in literature | Sex role in literature | Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Usurer's Daughter : Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in 16th Century EnglandDDC classification: 809.9335430031 LOC classification: PR418.W65HOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on transcriptions, references and abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION The signs of friendship -- Mental husbandry -- THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS -- ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP The textuality of amicitia -- Anxieties of textual access -- FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO PRUDENT CAPTAIN Masculinity and 'romantic' fiction -- USURERS' DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s -- The theatre of clandestine marriage -- HOUSEHOLD STUFF Terence in the Reformation -- WHY DO SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN HAVE 'CHARACTERS'? Error, credit and sex in The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew -- CONCLUSION Shylock: Why this usurer has a daughter -- Notes -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.
Summary: In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. The Usurer's Daughter: * provides startling new readings of Shakespeare * takes an entirely new approach to classical scholarship * focuses attention on the central importance of the history of the representation of women * illuminates how social relations between men were textualised during the early modern period.
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Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on transcriptions, references and abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION The signs of friendship -- Mental husbandry -- THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS -- ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP The textuality of amicitia -- Anxieties of textual access -- FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO PRUDENT CAPTAIN Masculinity and 'romantic' fiction -- USURERS' DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s -- The theatre of clandestine marriage -- HOUSEHOLD STUFF Terence in the Reformation -- WHY DO SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN HAVE 'CHARACTERS'? Error, credit and sex in The Comedy of Errors and The Taming of the Shrew -- CONCLUSION Shylock: Why this usurer has a daughter -- Notes -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index.

In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. The Usurer's Daughter: * provides startling new readings of Shakespeare * takes an entirely new approach to classical scholarship * focuses attention on the central importance of the history of the representation of women * illuminates how social relations between men were textualised during the early modern period.

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