Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England

出版者:Palgrave Macmillan

作者:Clark, Sandra

页数:288

出版时间:2003-10

价格:$ 136.73

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9781403902122

The book explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society that particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women's rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order. It considers the problems of writing about transgressive women for audiences whose ideal woman was chase, silent, and obedient.