What You Will: Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space

Kathryn Schwarz

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2011

What You Will

Gender, Contract, and Shakespearean Social Space

Kathryn Schwarz

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205039

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About this book

Kathryn Schwarz considers sixteenth- and seventeenth-century narratives in which women willingly conform to social conventions. She argues that these acts of compliance construct a paradox of prescribed choice, which illuminates complex relationships between hierarchy and contract within heterosocial systems.

Author / Editor information

Kathryn Schwarz is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and author of Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance.

Reviews

"Kathryn Schwarz's rigorous study of Renaissance texts belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in gender studies, early modern history or literature, or theories of subjectivity."—Southern Humanities Review

"In Schwartz's pessimistic but powerful vision, the edifice built by Shakespearean gender scripts can only be intermittently swayed. . . . Recommended."—Choice

"What makes this elegantly written book significant is the breadth of Schwarz's knowledge of early modern materials—not only the most often cited but a host of lesser-known texts as well—and, more important, the philosophical rigor with which she reads them."—Karen Newman, New York University

"Conceptually innovative and far-reaching, written in prose so concise and elegant that it is virtually aphoristic, What You Will points to ways of both revitalizing feminist work within early modern studies and of renewing a largely lost dialogue between early modern studies and contemporary feminist theory. It offers hope, in other words, for a renaissance of feminism."—Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Note on Citation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Virtue Trouble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One. Willing Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter Two. Willful Speech: Metonymy and Mastery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Chapter Three. Acts of Will: Misogyny and Masquerade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Chapter Four. ‘‘My Intents Are Fix’d’’: Constant Will in All’s Well That Ends Well Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter Five. ‘‘Will in Overplus’’: Recasting Misogyny in the Sonnets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter Six. ‘‘Twixt Will and Will Not’’: Chastity and Fracture in Measure for Measure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter Seven. ‘‘Fallen Out With My More Headier Will’’: Dislocation in King Lear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Epilogue. Or: The Roman Matron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 12 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: June 24, 2011
ISBN: 9780812205039