Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists cr

Analyses the construction of gender through bodily elements and clothing in early modern England.

A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. Th

This book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women's literary contribution

Cover -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Note on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Can the Subaltern Signify? Tracing the Lives of Girls and Women from