Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts

Abstract

Introduction, Mary Ellen Lamb Part 1 'Our Mothers' Maids': Nurture and Narrative: Telling tales: locating female nurture and narrative in The Faerie Queene, Jacqueline T. Miller Female orality and the healing arts in Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale, Kate Giglio Urania's example: the female storyteller in early modern English romance, Julie A. Eckerle 'Before woomen were readers': how John Aubrey wrote female oral history, Henk Dragstra. Part 2 Spinsters, Knitters and the Uses of Oral Tradition: Fractious: teenage girls' tales in and out of Shakespeare, Diane Purkiss Robber bridegrooms and devoured brides: the influence of folktales on Spenser's Burisane and Isis church episodes, Marianne Micros 'I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience': the curtain lecture and Shakespeare's Othello, LaRue Love Sloan Free and bound maids: women's work songs and industrial change in the age of Shakespeare, Fiona McNeill Gender at work in the cries of London, Natasha Korda. Part 3 Oral Traditions and Masculinity: Pocky queans and horned knaves: gender stereotypes in libelous poems, C.E. McGee Margaret and William Cavendish on the gender associations of ballad singing, James Fitzmaurice 'My manly shape hath yet a woman's minde': the fairy escape from gender-roles in The Maid's Metamorphosis, Regina Buccola 'Her very phrases': exploiting the metaphysics of presence in Twelfth Night, Eric Mason Clamorous voices, incontinent fictions: orality, oratory and gender in William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, Clare R. Kinney Afterword, Pamela Allen Brown Bibliography Index.