Women's work in early modern English literature and culture

Publication Data

• Title Women's work in early modern English literature and culture
• Author Michelle M. Dowd
• Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location Basingstoke
• Language English

Contents

Labors of love: female servants and the marriage plot
The spatial syntax of midwifery and wetnursing
Divine drudgery: the spiritual logic of housework
Household pedagogies: female educators and the language of legacy.

Topics

• English literature :: Early modern, 1500-1700 :: History and criticism
• Working class women in literature
• Work in literature
• Labor in literature
• Housekeeping in literature
• Working class women :: England :: History :: 17th century
• Literature and society :: England :: History :: 17th century
• Women :: England :: Social conditions :: 17th century

Women's work in early modern English literature and culture by Michelle M. Dowd. ISBN 9780230613454. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.