Ms Frances E. Dolan

True Relations

Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California, Davis. She is also author of Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy, available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 and Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 714g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244854
• ISBN-10: 0812244850
• Artikelnr.: 36905668

Autorenporträt

Frances E. Dolan

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Spelling
Introduction
PART I. CRISES OF EVIDENCE
Chapter 1. True and Perfect Relations: Henry Garnet, Confessional Identity,
and Figuration
Chapter 2. Sham Stories and Credible Relations: Witchcraft and Narrative
Conventions
Chapter 3. A True and Faithful Account? The London Fire, Blame, and
Partisan Proof
PART II. GENRES OF EVIDENCE
Chapter 4. First-Person Relations: Reading Depositions
Chapter 5. The Rule of Relation: Domestic Advice Literature and Its Readers
Chapter 6. Relational Truths: Dramatic Evidence, All Is True, and Double
Falsehood
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments