Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 “But She Woulde Not Consent”: Women’s Narratives of Sexual Assault and Compulsion in Early Modern London

Chapter 4 “Writing Rape, Raping Rites”: Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s Lucrece Poems

Chapter 5 Eve as Thanatrix: Sabbatarianism and the Republican Politics of Death and Resurrection in Lucy Hutchinson’s Order and Disorder

Chapter 6 Women, Religious Dissent, and Urban Authority in Early Reformation Norwich

Chapter 7 Power of the County: Sheriffs and Violence in Early Modern England

Chapter 8 Executing the Body Politic: Inscribing State Violence onto Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko

Chapter 9 London’s Bridewell: Violence, Prostitution, and Questions of Evidence

Chapter 10 “I Will Forgive You if the World Will”: Wife Murder and Limits on Patriarchal Violence in London, 1690–1750

Chapter 11 Afterword