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Cornell University Press Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

Name: Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
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Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.Frances E. Dolan examines stories ranging from the profoundly disturbing to the comically macabre: of husband murder, wife murder, infanticide, and witchcraft. She surveys trial transcripts, confessions, and scaffold speeches, as well as pamphlets, ballads, popular plays based on notorious crimes, and such well-known works as The Tempest, Othello, Macbeth, and The Winter's Tale. Citing contemporary analogies between the politics of household and commonwealth, she shows how both legal and literary narratives attempt to restore the order threatened by insubordinate dependents.

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Brand: Cornell University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0801429013
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Women in History
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 15 May 1994
Listed Since: 27 September 2005

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