This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women’s possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.

Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England: Bodies, Identities, and Power

The Reformation in England was largely a contest over space and its social meanings and uses. Gender intersected with religious affiliation in struggles over the control of several particularly fruitful sites: court chapels, prisons, households, and beds. Although Catholics lost many devotional, social, and political spaces in the wake of the Reformation, they also developed a tactical and adaptive relationship to space that fostered Catholic survival.

Gender and the “Lost” Spaces of Catholicism

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The Cambridge History of British Theatre

Introduction: eating relations Part I Cannibal Ethics: Excursus: The Body Edible: 1 The cook and the cannibal: Titus Andronicus and New World eating 2 I will not eat with you: failures of commensality in The Merchant of Venice Part II Communion and Community: 3 Anne Askew, John Bale, and the stakes of eating Excursus: Receiving the Recipe: 4 How to eat a book: Ann Fanshawe and manuscript recipe culture 5 Eaters of Eden: Milton and the invention of hospitality Conclusion: toward a relational ethics of eating Bibliography

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Eating and Ethics in Shakespeare's England

Identity construction of Roman Catholic religious sisters in the church in Nigeria.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Resistance, Reformation, and the remaining narratives 2. Framing recusant identity in counter-Reformation England 3. Legislating morality in the marriage market 4. Gender formation in English apocalyptic writing 5. Connections, qualifications, and agendas Notes Bibliography Index.

Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples@@@Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre and the Canon@@@Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject

The Production and Reception of Davenant's "Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru"

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

These essays present some significant Italian contributions to Shakespeare studies. The chapters are grouped into sections on theory and practice, theme and culture, and language and ideology.

Janet Clare

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Desiring Women Writing: English Renaissance Examples@@@Aemilia Lanyer: Gender, Genre and the Canon@@@Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject

The Production and Reception of Davenant's "Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru"

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality@@@Italian Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries