Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (327 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Credit, Commerce, and Women's Property Relationships -- 1 Temporal Gestation, Legal Contracts, and the Promissory Economies of The Winter's Tale -- 2 Putting Women in Their Place: Female Litigants at Whitehaven, 1660-1760 -- 3 Women's Property, Popular Cultures, and the Consistory Court of London in the Eighteenth Century -- 4 The Whore's Estate: Sally Salisbury, Prostitution, and Property in Eighteenth-Century London -- Part Two: Women, Social Reproduction, and Patrilineal Inheritance -- 5 Primogeniture, Patrilineage, and the Displacement of Women -- 6 Isabella's Rule: Singlewomen and the Properties of Poverty in Measure for Measure -- 7 Marriage, Identity, and the Pursuit of Property in Seventeenth-Century England: The Cases of Anne Clifford and Elizabeth Wiseman -- 8 Cordelia's Estate: Women and the Law of Property from Shakespeare to Nahum Tate -- Part Three: Women's Authorship and Ownership: Matrices for Emergent Ideas of Intellectual Property -- 9 Writing Home: Hannah Wolley, the Oxinden Letters, and Household Epistolary Practice -- 10 Women's Wills in Early Modern England -- 11 Spiritual Property: The English Benedictine Nuns of Cambrai and the Dispute over the Baker Manuscripts -- 12 The Titular Claims of Female Surnames in Eighteenth-Century Fiction -- 13 Early Modern (Aristocratic) Women and Textual Property -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern Englandturns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relationships in the early modern period.
9781442683600
English literature-Early modern, 1500-1700-History and criticism. Women and literature-England-16th century. Women and literature-England-17th century. Women and literature-England-18th century. Women-Legal status, laws, etc.-England-History. Women-England-History-Modern period, 1600-. Law and literature-History-16th century. Law and literature-History-17th century. Law and literature-History-18th century. Right of property-England-History. Property in literature. Law in literature.