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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784839203321

Autore

Hutson Lorna

Titolo

The usurer's daughter : male friendship and fictions of women in sixteenth-century England / / Lorna Hutson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-71578-1

1-134-71579-X

1-282-77815-3

9786612778155

0-203-21560-5

Descrizione fisica

x, 295 p

Disciplina

823/.309352042

Soggetti

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 16th century

English literature - Classical influences

Masculinity in literature

Friendship in literature

Sex role in literature

Humanists - England

Men in literature

England Intellectual life 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter INTRODUCTION -- The signs of friendship -- part Part I MENTAL HUSBANDRY -- chapter 1 THE HOUSEWIFE AND THE HUMANISTS -- chapter 2 ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP -- The textuality of amicitia -- chapter Part II Anxieties of textual access -- chapter 3 FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO -- Masculinity and romantic fiction / PRUDENT CAPTAIN -- chapter 4 USURERS DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS -- The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s -- chapter Part III The theatre of clandestine marriage -- chapter 5 HOUSEHOLD STUFF -- Terence in the Reformation -- chapter 6 WHY DO SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN HAVE CHARACTERS�? Error, credit and sex in The Comedy of



-- Error, credit and sex in The Comedy of / Errors and The Taming of the Shrew -- chapter CONCLUSION -- Shylock: Why this usurer has a daughter -- chapter NOTES -- chapter PRIMARY SOURCES -- chapter SECONDARY SOURCES.