Susan Wiseman

Conspiracy and Virtue: Women, Writing, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century England

Buch

What was the relationship between woman and politics in seventeenth-century England? Responding to this question, Conspiracy and Virtue argues that theoretical exclusion of women from the political sphere shaped their relation to it. Rather than producing silence, this exclusion generated rich, complex, and oblique political involvements which this study traces through the writings of both men and women. Pursuing this argument Conspiracy and Virtue engages the main writings on women's relationship to the political sphere including debates on the public sphere and on contract theory. Writers and figures discussed include Elizabeth Avery, Aphra… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-920512-7
EAN: 9780199205127
Produktnummer: 22682771
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Masse: H22.3 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.8 cm 585 g
Gewicht: 585

Über den Autor

Susan Wiseman is the author of Drama and Politics in the English Civil War and of Aphra Behn. She teaches in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London.