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Subordinate Subjects

Suzuki, Mihoko

2003,2017,2018

Overview

Considering as evidence literary texts, historical documents, and material culture, this interdisciplinary study examines the entry into public political culture of women and apprentices in seventeenth-century England, and their use of discursive and literary forms in advancing an imaginary of political equality. Subordinate Subjects traces to the end of Elizabeth Tudor's reign in the 1590s the origin of this imaginary, analyses its flowering during the English Revolution, and examines its afterlife from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688-89. It uses post-Marxist theories of radical democracy, post-structuralist theories of gender, and a combination of political theory and psychoanalysis to discuss the early modern construction of the political subject. Subordinate Subjects makes a distinctive contribution to the study of early modern English literature and culture through its chronological range, its innovative use of political, psychoanalytic, and feminist theories, and its interdisciplinary focus on literature, social history, political thought, gender studies, and cultural studies. Contents: Introduction; Apprentices and the national-popular; Gender and the political imaginary; Women's writing and the politics of history; Petitioning apprentices, petitioning wives; 'Royalist' women and the English Revolution; Apprentices, wives, 'whores' and the political nation; Women, print culture, and the public sphere; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. Mihoko Suzuki is Professor of English at the University of Miami. She is the author of Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic (Cornell University Press 1989), editor of Critical Essays on Edmund Spenser (Macmillan, 1996) and co-editor, with Cristina Malcolmson, of Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1700 (Palgrave, 2002).

• Publisher: Routledge,Taylor and Francis,Ashgate,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: British History / British Literature / British Studies / Early Modern / Early Modern History 1500-1750 / England -- Intellectual life -- 17th century / English literature / English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism / English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Feminism and literature / Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century / Literary form / Literature & Gender Studies / Political activity / Political Philosophy / Politics and literature / Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century / Renaissance Literature / Sex role in literature / Women and literature / Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century / Women's & Gender History
• ISBN: 9780754606055, 0754606058