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Private Matters and Public Culture in Post-Reformation England

By Lena Cowen Orlin

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501737381
DOI
10.7591/9781501737381
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (22292265 bytes)
Pages
336\328
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 18:48:52

Description

And while other forms of public literature provided blueprints for ordering the household, domestic tragedies continued to reveal the tensions lying under the surface there: inconsistencies in the prescribed role of women, contradictions within patriarchal ideology, conflicts between political and economic interests in the household, inadequacies in the old ideals of friendship and benefice, and anxieties about the control of material possessions.

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