Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England

Abstract

Apprentice riots in early modern London / Paul S. Seaver -- "But she woulde not consent": women's narratives of sexual assault and compulsion in early modern London / Cristine M. Varholy -- "Writing rape, raping rites": Shakespeare's and Middleton's Lucrece poems / Celia R. Daileader -- Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the republican politics of death and resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and disorder / Katharine Gillespie -- Women, religious dissent, and urban authority in early reformation Norwich / Muriel C. McClendon -- Power of the county: sheriffs and violence in early modern England / Myron C. Noonkester -- Executing the body politic: inscribing state violence onto Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Shannon Miller -- London's Bridewell: violence, prostitution, and questions of evidence / Melissa Mowry -- "I will forgive you if the world will": wife murder and limits on patriarchal violence in London, 1690-1750 / Jennine Hurl-Eamon.