In Malevolent Nurture, Deborah Willis explores the dynamics of witchcraft accusation through legal documents, pamphlet literature, religious tracts, and the plays of Shakespeare.
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"Another issue insufficiently considered in the intersection of witch-hunting and gender is that women were more likely than men to be accusers. Literary historian Deborah Willis seeks to redress this oversight. . . . Willis is critical of studies that represent witch-hunts as 'all-male' and 'univocally misogynist'; she takes issue with the 'widely held feminist view that assigns the women accused of witchcraft the role of rebellious proto-feminists and the female accusers to that of patriarchal conformists'. . . . She examines the threat of the witch to order on several social levels: peasent, gentry, and aristocratic."-Kenneth P. Minkema, Religious Studies Review
"Very well and clearly written and thoroughly researched."-Carole Levin, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
"Very well and clearly written and thoroughly researched."-Carole Levin, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England
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A good book on the witch hunts,
This review is from: Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England (Paperback)
This is an informative and helpful book on the early modern english witchcraft trials. It focuses on the women who were accused as well as the women who were doing the accusing. It is well researched and it is an interested read. However, it may be a little too feminist for some.
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According to two documents among the state papers of 1590, an unnamed London informer told the sheriff's office that a Mrs. Dewse had engaged the services of Robert Birche, by reputation a conjurer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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According to two documents among the state papers of 1590, an unnamed London informer told the sheriff's office that a Mrs. Dewse had engaged the services of Robert Birche, by reputation a conjurer. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lady Macbeth, New York, North Berwick, King James, Mary Queen of Scots, Queen Elizabeth, Melanie Klein, George Gifford, Suffocating Mothers, Christina Larner, Janet Adelman, Cambridge University Press, Reginald Scot, Jane Shore, Lawrence Stone, Margery Jourdain, Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, Agnes Sampson, Alan Macfarlane, Duchess of York, Joan la Pucelle, Keith Thomas, Popular Culture, William Perkins New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Order and Disorder in Early Modern England by Anthony Fletcher on 5 pages
- Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (Women in Culture and Society) by Margaret W. Ferguson on 4 pages
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- Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) by Caroline Bicks on page 142, and Back Matter
- Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Julia M. Walker on page 92, and Back Matter
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- Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays by Judith Weil in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English Stage by Amanda Eubanks Winkler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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