Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Apprentice Riots in Early Modern London....Pages 17-39
“But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London....Pages 41-65
“Writing Rape, Raping Rites”: Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems....Pages 67-89
Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder....Pages 91-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich....Pages 125-146
Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England....Pages 147-171
Executing the Body Politic: Inscribing State Violence onto Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko....Pages 173-205
London’s Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution, and Questions of Evidence....Pages 207-222
“I Will Forgive You if the World Will”: Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690–1750....Pages 223-247
Afterword....Pages 249-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-264