Rewriting the Renaissance

Series Editor's Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Acknowledgments
The Contributors
Introduction by Margaret W. Ferguson, with Maureen Quilligan and Nancy J. Vickers
Part 1: The Politics of Patriarchy: Theory and Practice
1. Fatherly Authority: The Politics of Stuart Family Images
Jonathan Goldberg
2. The Absent Mother in King Lear
Coppélia Kahn
3. Prospero's Wife
Stephen Orgel
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Shaping Fantasies of Elizabethan Culture: Gender, Power, Form
Louis A. Montrose
5. Puritanism and Maenadism in A Mask
Richard Halpern
6. Dalila's House: Samson Agonistes and the Sexual Division of Labor
John Guillory
7. Patriarchal Territories: The Body Enclosed
Peter Stallybrass
Part 2: The Rhetorics of Marginalization: Consequences of Patriarchy
8. The Other and The Same: The Image of the Hermaphrodite in Rabelais
Carla Freccero
9. Usurpation, Seduction, and the Problematics of the Proper: A "Deconstructive," "Feminist" Rereading of the Seductions of Richard and Anne in Shakespeare's Richard III
10. The Beauty of Woman: Problems in the Rhetoric of Renaissance Portraiture
Elizabeth Cropper
11. Spinsters and Seamstresses: Women in Cloth and Clothing Production
Merry E. Wiesner
12. A Woman's Place Was in the Home: Women's Work in Renaissance Tuscany
Judith C. Brown
Part 3: The Works of Women: Some Exceptions to the Rule of Patriarchy
13. Catherine de' Medici as Artemisia: Figuring the Powerful Widow
Sheila ffolliott
14. Feminism and the Huamnists: The Case for Sir Thomas Elyot's Defense of Good Women
Constance Jordan
15. Singing Unsung Heroines: Androgynous Discourse in Book 3 of The Faerie Queene
Lauren Silberman
16. Stella's Wit: Penelope Rich as Reader of Sidney's Sonnets
Clark Hulse
17. Gender vs. Sex Difference in Louise Labé's Grammar of Love
Françoise Rigolot
18. City Women and Their Audiences: Louise Labé and Veronica Franco
Ann Rosalind Jones
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index