'Shall She Famish Then?' Female Food Refusal in Early Modern England
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 Contexts and Methodologies -- 2 The Public Rendering of Margaret Ratcliffe's Death -- 3 Fasting and Prayer in A Woman Killed with Kindness: Religious Salvation and Political Resistance -- 4 'Starved! starved!': Anatomy and Food Refusal in John Ford's The Broken Heart -- 5 'The Maiden neither eate nor drank one morsel or droppe': Miracle Maidens as Colonial Obiects -- Epilogue: 'What, sir ... can I do? I have no appetite' -- Appendix I: Inscription on the Tomb of Margaret Ratcliffe at Westminster
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Contents: Epigraph; Dedication; Preface; Contexts and methodologies; The public rendering of Margaret Ratcliffe's death; Fasting and prayer in A Woman Killed with Kindness: religious salvation and political resistance; 'Starved; starved': anatomy and food refusal in John Ford's The Broken Heart; 'The Maiden neither eate nor drank one morsel or droppe': miracle maidens as colonial objects; Epilogue: 'What, sir, ... can I do? I have no appetite'; Appendix I: Inscription on the tomb of Margaret Ratcliffe; Appendix II: The deaths of Queen Elizabeth I and Lady Arbella Stuart; Appendix III: Chronological listing of descriptions of Miracle Maidens, published in England 1589-1677; Bibliography; Index.
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