Gender and Song in Early Modern England

Song offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song's capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.

Author: Leslie C. Dunn,Katherine R. Larson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/20/2014
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781472443410

About the Author
Leslie C. Dunn is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College, USA. Katherine R. Larson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada.