 | Enclosure Acts: Sexuality, Property, and Culture in Early Modern England Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; ; This collection of essays, by theorists and scholars representing a wide range of critical orientations, focuses not only on land enclosure as a historical fact, but also on the symbolic containment of sexuality in Elizabethan and Jacobean literature. Richard Burt is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. John Michael Archer is Associate Professor of English at Columbia University. |
