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Women and the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, 1640-1660

"Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women
Print Book, English, ©2006
Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants, England, ©2006
Criticism, interpretation, etc
218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780754641155, 0754641155
61687676
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Agency in crisis : women write the regicide
A woman in the business of revolutionary news : Elizabeth Alkin, "Parliament Joan", and the Commonwealth newsbook
Clothing the naked woman : writing women's agency in revolutionary England
Gender identities and women's agency in early modern tithe dispute