Usurer's Daughter

<p>In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project.<br><em>The Usurer's Daughter</em>:<br> * provides startling new readings of Shakespeare<br> * takes an entirely new approach to classical scholarship<br> * focuses attention on the central importance of the history of the representation of women<br> * illuminates how social relations between men were textualised during the early modern period.</p>