Women, Food Exchange, and Governance in Early Modern England

✍ Scribed by Madeline Bassnett (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 254
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book is about the relationship of food and food practices to discourses and depictions of domestic and political governance in early modern women’s writing. It examines the texts of four elite women spanning approximately forty years: the Psalmes of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; the maternal nursing pamphlet of Elizabeth Clinton, Dowager Countess of Lincoln; the diary of Margaret, Lady Hoby; and Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth’s prose romance, Urania. It argues that we cannot gain a full picture of what food meant to the early modern English without looking at the works of women, who were the primary managers of household foodways. In examining food practices such as hospitality, gift exchange, and charity, this monograph demonstrates that women, no less than men, engaged with vital social, cultural and political processes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-22
Providential Gifts and Agricultural Plenty: The Psalmes of Mary Sidney Herbert....Pages 23-64
The Milk of Wholesome Government: Elizabeth Clinton’s The Covntesse of Lincolnes Nvrserie ....Pages 65-101
Prayerful Dining: The Diary of Margaret Hoby....Pages 103-138
The Quintessence of Good Governance: Humanist Hospitality in Mary Wroth’s Urania ....Pages 139-175
Shaping the Body Politic: Mobile Food and Transnational Exchange in Urania ....Pages 177-211
Epilogue....Pages 213-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-248

✦ Subjects

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature;British and Irish Literature;History of Britain and Ireland

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