The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family

by Margaret J. M. Ezell and Margaret J.M. Ezell

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Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading.

Ezell questions whether the literary evidence presently used to reconstruct the lives of seventeenth-century women-- diaries,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807865370

ISBN13:9780807865378

Release Date:May 2011

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

17th Century Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods

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