Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary TextsMary Ellen Lamb, Karen Bamford Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 250 pages This volume explores the cultural meanings, especially the gendered meanings, of material associated with oral traditions. It is divided into three sections: 'Our mothers' maids', 'Spinsters, knitters and the uses of oral traditions' and 'Oral traditions and masculinity'. |
Contents
vi | 15 |
3 | 36 |
5 | 57 |
7 | 77 |
Change in the Age of Shakespeare | 101 |
Gender at Work in the Cries of London | 117 |
10 | 139 |
11 | 153 |
12 | 165 |
13 | 181 |
14 | 187 |
Afterword | 209 |
| 215 | |
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