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Article: Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England. By MAURREN QUILLIGAN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. viii + 281 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8122-1905-0.
In Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England Maureen Quilligan urges literary critics, and especially feminist literary critics, to be more sophisticated in their analysis of the nature of marriage in the sixteenth century. Above all, she urges us to recognize how family structures may have empowered as well as constrained women in the Elizabethan period; literary critics, it is suggested, need to catch up with developments in anthropological theory. For anthropologists, marriage is no ...