Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of

Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. A category of discourse which transgresses the law, it offers a more h

This book examines slander in early modern England as a gendered and theatrical cultural practice. Habermann explores oral defamation – the negative fashionin

How did the events of the early modern period affect the way gender and the self were represented? This collection of essays attempts to respond to this questio

The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth