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- catalog abstract "Even now in the mass media, women are often portrayed as murderers in their own homes, although in reality women are much more likely to be the victims of domestic violence than the perpetrators. Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find similar misperceptions. The spector of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why. The author examines stories ranging from the profoundly disturbing to the comically macabre: of husband murder, wife murder, infanticide, and witchcraft. She surveys trial transcripts, confessions, and gallows speeches, as well as pamphlets, ballads, and popular plays based on notorious crimes. Citing contemporary analogies between the politics of household and commonwealth, she shows how both legal and literary narratives attempt to restore the order threatened by insubordinate dependents. -- from Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b5835245.
- catalog coverage "England Social conditions 16th century.".
- catalog coverage "England Social conditions 17th century.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Even now in the mass media, women are often portrayed as murderers in their own homes, although in reality women are much more likely to be the victims of domestic violence than the perpetrators. Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find similar misperceptions. The spector of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why. The author examines stories ranging from the profoundly disturbing to the comically macabre: of husband murder, wife murder, infanticide, and witchcraft. She surveys trial transcripts, confessions, and gallows speeches, as well as pamphlets, ballads, and popular plays based on notorious crimes. Citing contemporary analogies between the politics of household and commonwealth, she shows how both legal and literary narratives attempt to restore the order threatened by insubordinate dependents. -- from Publisher description.".
- catalog description "I. "Home-rebels and House-traitors": Petty Treason and the Murderous Wife -- II. The Subordinate('s) Plot: Petty Treason and the Forms of Domestic Rebellion -- III. Revolutions, Petty Tyranny, and the Murderous Husband -- IV. Finding What Has Been "Lost": Representations of Infanticide and The Winter's Tale -- V. Witchcraft and the Threat of the Familiar.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 253 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801429013 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0801481341 (correct)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Social conditions 16th century.".
- catalog spatial "England Social conditions 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "364.942 20".
- catalog subject "Children Crimes against Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Crime England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Crime England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "HV6949.E5 D65 1994".
- catalog subject "Infanticide Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Witchcraft England History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Witchcraft England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Women England Public opinion History.".
- catalog subject "Women Violence against England History.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. "Home-rebels and House-traitors": Petty Treason and the Murderous Wife -- II. The Subordinate('s) Plot: Petty Treason and the Forms of Domestic Rebellion -- III. Revolutions, Petty Tyranny, and the Murderous Husband -- IV. Finding What Has Been "Lost": Representations of Infanticide and The Winter's Tale -- V. Witchcraft and the Threat of the Familiar.".
- catalog title "Dangerous familiars : representations of domestic crime in England, 1550-1700 / Frances E. Dolan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".