Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction: A New New Historicism 1
4. Part I: Materials of the Everyday
5. 2. The “I” of the Beholder 21
6. 3. “Reasonable Creatures” 42
7. 4. “Pox on Your Distinction!” 67
8. 5. Homely Accents 92
9. Part II: The Everyday Making of Women
10. 6. Everyday Life, Longevity, and Nuns in Early Modern Florence 115
11. 7. Constructing the Female Self 139
12. 8. The Buck Basket, the Witch, and the Queen of Fairies 162
13. 9. Three Ways to be Invisible in the Renaissance 183
14. 10. Household Chastisements 204
15. Part III: Everyday Transgressions
16. 11. Money and the Regulation of Desire 229
17. 12. Reorganizing Knowledge 254
18. 13. “The Catastrophe Is a Nuptial” 271
19. 14. “Leaving Out the Insurrection” 299
20. 15. Graffiti, Grammatology, and the Age of Shakespeare 315
21. Contributors 353
22. Index 357
23. Acknowledgments 367