A History of Early Modern Women's Literature

A History of Early Modern Women's Literature
Title A History of Early Modern Women's Literature PDF eBook
Author Patricia Phillippy
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 463
Release 2018-01-18
Genre History
ISBN 1107137063

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This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Reading Early Modern Women's Writing

Reading Early Modern Women's Writing
Title Reading Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook
Author Paul Salzman
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 256
Release 2006-11-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191532045

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This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a representative sample of that writing was published, circulated in manuscript, read, anthologised, reprinted, and discussed from the time it was produced through to the present day. Salzman's study covers an enormous range of women from all areas of early modern society, and it covers examples of the many and varied genres produced by these women, from plays to prophecies, diaries to poems, autobiographies to philosophy. As well as introducing readers to the wealth of material produced by women in the early modern period, this book examines changing responses to what was written, tracing a history of reception and transmission that amounts to a cultural history of changing taste.

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
Title The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook
Author Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 339
Release 2009-10-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0521885272

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Ideal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.

The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing

The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing
Title The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook
Author Danielle Clarke
Publisher Routledge
Pages 302
Release 2014-06-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317883829

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The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing provides an introduction to the ever-expanding field of early modern women's writing by reading texts in their historical and social contexts. Covering a wide range of forms and genres, the author shows that rather than women conforming to the conventional 'chaste, silent and obedient' model, or merely working from the 'margins' of Renaissance culture, they in fact engaged centrally with many of the major ideas and controversies of their time. The book discusses many previously neglected texts and authors, as well as more familiar figures such as Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Isabella Whitney and Lady Mary Wroth, and draws attention to the importance of genre and forms of circulation in the production of meaning. The Politics of Early Modern Women will be of interest both to those encountering this material for the first time, and to students and scholars working in the fields of women's writing, gender studies, history and literature.

Early Modern Women's Writing

Early Modern Women's Writing
Title Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook
Author Martine van Elk
Publisher Springer
Pages 308
Release 2017-01-09
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3319332228

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This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly imagined as properly confined to the household by the end of the century. This book compares how English and Dutch women responded to these changes. It discusses praise of women, marriage manuals, and attitudes to female literacy, along with female artistic and literary expressions in the form of painting, engraving, embroidery, print, drama, poetry, and prose, to offer a rich account of women’s contributions to debates on issues that mattered most to them.

Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty

Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty
Title Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty PDF eBook
Author P. Pender
Publisher Springer
Pages 203
Release 2012-04-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137008016

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An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing

Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing
Title Expanding the Canon of Early Modern Women’s Writing PDF eBook
Author Paul Salzman
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 275
Release 2010-07-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1443823627

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This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing offers a range of approaches to a growing field. As a whole, the volume introduces readers to a number of writers, such as Mirabai and Liu Rushi, who are virtually invisible in Anglophone scholarship, and to writers who remain little known, such as Elizabeth Melville, Elizabeth Hatton, and Jane Sharpe. The volume also represents critical strategies designed to open up the emergent canon of early modern women’s writing to new approaches, especially those that have consolidated the integration of literary and intellectual history, with an emphasis on religion, legal issues, and questions of genre. The authors expand the methodological possibilities available to approach early modern women who wrote in a diverse number of genres, from letters to poetry, autobiography and prose fiction. The sixteen essays are a major contribution to an area that has attracted the interest of a number of fields, including literary studies, history, cultural studies, and women’s studies.