The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0175 Wednesday, 15 March 2006
[1] From: R. A. Cantrell <
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Date: Tuesday, 14 Mar 2006 11:49:25 -0600
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0167 Household Manuals
[2] From: James Bromley <
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Date: Tuesday, 14 Mar 2006 13:05:35 -0600
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0167 Household Manuals
[3] From: Evelyn Gajowski <
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Date: Tuesday, 14 Mar 2006 11:26:31 -0800
Subj: RE: SHK 17.0167 Household Manuals
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From: R. A. Cantrell <
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Date: Tuesday, 14 Mar 2006 11:49:25 -0600
Subject: 17.0167 Household Manuals
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0167 Household Manuals
Mike Jones <
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>I am a little unsure whether I am in the correct place for this query.
>My question concerns the print culture of early modern household
>manuals. I have followed up Tessa Watt and Margaret Spufford, as well
>as the Cambridge History of the book, I have also worked through Myers
>and Bennet's work on the print culture of the period; however, I seem to
>have now reached the end of the reference road and was wondering if
>anybody had any pointers.
The timeline is fuzzy, but I think ten or fifteen years back the Folger
had an exhibit of these manuals. The young lady who lectured in
conjunction with the exhibit knew the extant material intimately.
Unfortunately I don't recall her name. I'm sure Mr. Kuhta will know.
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From: James Bromley <
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Date: Tuesday, 14 Mar 2006 13:05:35 -0600
Subject: 17.0167 Household Manuals
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0167 Household Manuals
Wendy Wall's recent book, Staging Domesticity, should be a good source
for you. Since she has a previous book on print culture, you might find
that she makes connections between print culture and domestic manuals
(just a hunch here). As far as finding recent copies of manuals, I know
there is a recent hardcover of Vives' Instruction of a Christen Woman
from U of Illinois P. I don't know quite enough about modern publishing
to offer a reliable answer about the reason for the scarcity of the
other texts, but I might guess that lack of interest and the length of
some of the domestic manuals might make presses wary to publish editions
of them. But, that is only a guess.
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From: Evelyn Gajowski <
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Date: Tuesday, 14 Mar 2006 11:26:31 -0800
Subject: 17.0167 Household Manuals
Comment: RE: SHK 17.0167 Household Manuals
For Mike Jones:
I suggest checking out online resources, such as SCETI
(http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/flash.cfm?CFID=1405547&CFTOKEN=55609337),
EEBO (http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home), etc. For hardcopies, see Diane
Bornstein, ed. (Distaves and Dames: Renaissance Treatises for and about
Women. Scholars' Facsimiles, 1978), for a facsimile of Vives and
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Amsterdam, 1976) for a reprint of Gouge. The
following anthologies/editions include excerpts of one or more of the
early modern texts in question:
Aughterson, Kate, ed. Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook: Constructions of
Femininity in England. Routledge, 1995.
Davis, Lloyd, ed. Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance: An
Annotated Edition of Contemporary Documents. Garland, 1998.
Klein, Joan Larsen, ed. Daughters, Wives, and Widows: Writings by Men
about Women and Marriage in England, 1500-1640. Illinois, 1992.
Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts. Ed.
Frances Dolan. Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996.
Watson, Foster. Vives and the Renascence Education of Women. Edward
Arnold, 1912; Longmans, 1912.
Valerie Wayne's edition of Edmund Tilney's The Flower of Friendship
(Cornell U P, 1992) is the best contemporary edition of an early modern
English conduct book of which I am aware.
All the best,
Evelyn Gajowski
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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