Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women. Dowd investigates literature's engagement...
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Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women. Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; Introduction; 1 Labors of Love: Female Servants and the Marriage Plot; 2 The Spatial Syntax of Midwifery and Wet-Nursing; 3 Divine Drudgery: The Spiritual Logic of Housework; 4 Household Pedagogies: Female Educators and the Language of Legacy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
