Family Politics in Early Modern Literature

1. Introduction; Hannah Crawforth and Sarah Lewis.- PART I: UNION.- 2. Margaret Cavendish, Wife; Julie Crawford.- 3. Reading Overbury’s Wife: Politics and Marriage in 1616; Christina Luckyj.- 4. Representations of the Family in Early Caroline Drama: or, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Henrietta Maria?; Tom MacFaul.- 5. Animal Families; Helen Smith.- PART II: SUCCESSION.- 6. ‘Good agreement betwixt the wombe and frute’: the Politics of Maternal Power in the Letters of Lady Anne Bacon; Katy Mair.- 7. Allegiance and Alliance: Maternal Genealogies in the Works of Mary Wroth; Naomi Miller.- 8. Mini-Majesty: Dynasty and Succession in the Portraiture of Henry VIII and Edward VI; Naomi Yavneh Klos.- 9. Beyond the Palace: the Transmission of Political Power in the Clifford Circle; Jessica L. Malay.- PART III: REBELLION.- 10. Bare-Forked Animals: King Lear and the Problems of Patriarchalism; Su Fang Ng.- 11. The State, Childhood and Religious Dissent; Lucy Underwood.- 12. Father Figures: Paternal Politics in the Conversion Narratives of Thomas Gage and James Wadsworth; Abigail Shinn.- 13. Family Politics and Age in Early Modern England; Lucy Munro.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.-