Lucinda M. Becker

Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender through the occasion of death, it advances our understanding of the construction of femininity in the period. The first part of the book gives a cultural and historical overview of death in early modern England, examining the means by which human mortality was confronted, and how the fear of death and dying could be used to uphold the mores of society. The second part of the study analyzes reports of 'good' and 'bad' female deaths. The third section of the book considers how death could, paradoxically, liberate a woman. In this section Becker evaluates the opportunity for female involvement in dying and posthumous rituals, including funeral rites and sermons, commemorative and autobiographical writing and literary legacies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 217mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781138277946
• ISBN-10: 1138277940
• Artikelnr.: 49033216

Autorenporträt

Lucinda M. Becker

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Death in Early Modern England: Facing death: The fear of death: pious publications
Death as God's will: acceptance and preparation
Recording death: rehearsing and revising
Early modern women and death: Witnessing death: the domestic deathbed
Wives, widows and mothers: transition and transformation
Women as healers: medicine and superstition
Death as a gendered experience: blurring the boundaries
The creation of posthumous female images: Patterns for posterity: selecting and editing
Dying mothers: blessings and instruction
A public death: exposure and judgement
Contrasting Images: Women dying badly: Recording poor deaths: private and public writings
Female weakness: physicality and irrationality
Controlling femininity: popular pamphlets
The crime of self-murder: sin and despair
Upholding the patriarchy: education and social cohesion
Women dying well: Women and the family: wives, mothers and daughters
Women and politics: propaganda and persuasion
Religious propaganda: assertion and negation
The upholding of gender: praise and condemnation
Enduring Images: Death as an Opportunity: Women and the rituals of death: Funerals: sermons and sanctification
Commemoration: private grief and public memorials
Execution: assertion and repression
Female martyrs: leadership and idolatry
Female identity in death: wills and posthumous marital status: Women's wills: expression and conformity
Posthumous marital status: temporal and spiritual husbands
Women's writing and death: Women and publication: writing and revealing
Female authorship: challenges and solutions
Autobiographical writing: creation and introspection
Mothers' literary legacies: parenting and authoring
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.