ABSTRACT

In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project.
The Usurer's Daughter:
* provides startling new readings of Shakespeare
* takes an entirely new approach to classical scholarship
* focuses attention on the central importance of the history of the representation of women
* illuminates how social relations between men were textualised during the early modern period.

chapter |14 pages

INTRODUCTION

The signs of friendship

part |2 pages

Part I MENTAL HUSBANDRY

chapter 2|35 pages

ECONOMIES OF FRIENDSHIP

The textuality of amicitia

chapter 3|24 pages

FROM ERRANT KNIGHT TO

Masculinity and ‘romantic’ fiction

chapter 4|38 pages

USURERS’ DAUGHTERS AND PRODIGAL SONS

The gendered plot of authorship in the 1570s

chapter 5|25 pages

HOUSEHOLD STUFF

Terence in the Reformation

chapter |15 pages

CONCLUSION

Shylock: Why this usurer has a daughter

chapter |35 pages

NOTES

chapter |6 pages

PRIMARY SOURCES

chapter |9 pages

SECONDARY SOURCES