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Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England

By Madeline Bassnett (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
978-3-319-40867-5, 978-3-319-40868-2
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-40868-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12227306 bytes)
Series
Early Modern Literature in History
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 248\254
Time added
2016-12-28 02:00:00
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature;British and Ir

Description

This book is about the relationship of food and food practices to discourses and depictions of domestic and political governance in early modern women’s writing. It examines the texts of four elite women spanning approximately forty years: the Psalmes of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; the maternal nursing pamphlet of Elizabeth Clinton, Dowager Countess of Lincoln; the diary of Margaret, Lady Hoby; and Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth’s prose romance, Urania. It argues that we cannot gain a full picture of what food meant to the early modern English without looking at the works of women, who were the primary managers of household foodways. In examining food practices such as hospitality, gift exchange, and charity, this monograph demonstrates that women, no less than men, engaged with vital social, cultural and political processes.

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