Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject

by Megan Matchinske

Book Overview

The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, to Civil War perceptions of the self as inscribed by the state and inflected according to gender, a site of civil and sexual invigilation and control. Each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052103521X
• ISBN13: 9780521035217
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"