1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450910203321

Autore

Rackin Phyllis

Titolo

Shakespeare and women [[electronic resource] /] / Phyllis Rackin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-75829-5

9786610758296

0-19-151391-1

1-4237-6967-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Oxford Shakespeare topics

Disciplina

822.3/3

Soggetti

Women and literature - England - History - 16th century

Women and literature - England - History - 17th century

Women in the theater - England - History - 17th century

Women in the theater - England - History - 16th century

Sex role in literature

Women in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [138]-144)  and index.

Nota di contenuto

A usable history -- The place(s) of women in Shakespeare's world : historical fact and feminist interpretation -- Our canon, ourselves -- Boys will be girls -- The lady's reeking breath  -- Shakespeare's timeless women.

Sommario/riassunto

Shakespeare and Women challenges a number of current assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre industry, the female characters in his plays, and the dark lady of the Sonnets. It argues that the current scholarly emphasis on patriarchal power, male misogyny, and women's oppression may tell us more about ourselves than about the world Shakespeare inhabited and the worlds he created in his. plays. - ;Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early mod



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820939303321

Autore

Dessens Nathalie <1963->

Titolo

Creole City : a chronicle of early American New Orleans / / Nathalie Dessens ; Gene Allen Smith, series editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8130-5061-8

0-8130-5523-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Contested Boundaries

Disciplina

976.3/35

Soggetti

New Orleans (La.) History 19th century

New Orleans (La.) Social life and customs 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Adventure -- Extremes -- Progress -- Crossroads -- Cultures -- The Creole capital.

Sommario/riassunto

Although sometimes read like a piece of economic, social, intellectual, and cultural history, Moyer's book is not meant to be a comprehensive history of early American New Orleans, but an individual perception of New Orleans, a very personal description of what Jean Boze,a foreigner in the Crescent City, saw and wrote about during the 1820s and 1830s. The reader will follow him in his wanderings through the city's history, and learn about early New Orleans within the context of the early nineteenth century Atlantic space.