The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family

by Margaret J. M. Ezell and Margaret J.M. Ezell

Book Overview

Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading.

Ezell questions whether the literary evidence presently used to reconstruct the lives of seventeenth-century women-- diaries,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865370
• ISBN13: 9780807865378
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"