Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic
by
Martine van Elk
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed...