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Performing Privacy and Gender in Early Modern Literature

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  • © 2013

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  1. Mary E. Trull

    1. St. Olaf College, USA

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Performing Privacy and Early Modern Women

    • Mary E. Trull
    Pages 1-19

  3. Private Lament in Calvin, Knox, and Anne Lock

    • Mary E. Trull
    Pages 20-51

  4. Privacy and Gender in Household Orders

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    Pages 52-83

  5. Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well: Mastery and Publicity

    • Mary E. Trull
    Pages 84-111

  6. Marriage and Private Lament in Mary Wroth’s Urania

    • Mary E. Trull
    Pages 112-144

  7. Interest and Retirement in Aphra Behn’s Odes

    • Mary E. Trull
    Pages 145-171

  8. Epilogue: Performing Privacy on Facebook

    • Mary E. Trull
    Pages 172-177

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 178-232
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About this book

This book argues that the early modern public/private boundary was surprisingly dynamic and flexible in early modern literature, drawing upon authors including Shakespeare, Anne Lock, Mary Wroth, and Aphra Behn, and genres including lyric poetry, drama, prose fiction, and household orders. An epilogue discusses postmodern privacy in digital media.

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“Performing Privacy is a carefully crafted, meticulously researched, scholarly study that cogently demonstrates the experimental formal, generic, and rhetorical strategies that early modern writers employed to trouble the formal and generic conventions of the publicity / privacy opposition. Contesting conventional approaches to the topic, Trull’s study opens a capacious window on early modern constructions of privacy and gender, usefully prompting us to rethink the relationships among gender, genre, publicity, privacy, and the performance of subjectivity.” (Mark Albert Johnston, Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 38 (3), 2015)

Authors and Affiliations

  • St. Olaf College, USA

    Mary E. Trull

About the author

Mary Trull is an Associate Professor of English at St. Olaf College, USA. Her research on Shakespeare and early modern women writers has been published in essay collections and journals including ELR: English Literary Renaissance and Religion and Literature.

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