Allegations: The Proto-Public Sphere and the Figure of the Female Accused (1550-1640)

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"Allegations" charts how accused female characters across a number of early modern texts convene and organize relations among the English legal system, the emerging realm of popular print, and the proto-public sphere. Because these systems in their existing state largely fail to serve the women accused, the women instead refashion these established channels and summon their own assemblies in hopes of vindicating themselves. This assembled court of public opinion thus has the opportunity to override and modify the initial judgements that the existing channels of power hand down. The printed realm and the popular engagement it facilitates come to offer a counterweight to traditional arrangements, and the accused who reimagine the legal sphere through print lead the way towards more participatory elements in literature.

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Date created May 12, 2022
Date modified December 5, 2022
Publication date August 9, 2022

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Author Zhang, Cybele
Thesis advisor Yu, Esther
Thesis advisor Owens, Tom

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Subject female juries
Subject English literature > Early modern
Subject English prose literature > Early modern
Subject English drama > Early modern and Elizabethan
Subject Beware the Cat
Subject The Roaring Girl
Subject Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632
Subject Middleton, Thomas, Sir, 1586-1666
Subject The Women's Sharpe Revenge
Subject Law
Subject cheap and popular print
Subject Pamphlets
Subject Baldwin, William, approximately 1518-1563?
Subject Habermas, Jürgen
Subject Public sphere
Genre Text
Genre Thesis

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DOI https://doi.org/10.25740/ng795wz6315
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/ng795wz6315

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Zhang, C. (2022). Allegations: The Proto-Public Sphere and the Figure of the Female Accused (1550-1640). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/ng795wz6315

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