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1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 307 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511470363
Content:
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts. Drawing together the pioneering work of feminist literary critics and historians, this survey examines ways in which the idea of woman was constructed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and women's role in and access to literary culture. It also focuses on women writers and their output across the spectrum of genres from courtly romance to Quaker prophecy. A unique chronology offers a woman-centred perspective on historical and literary events, and there is a guide to further reading. Women and Literature in Britain, 1500–1700 explores the history of women's part in the development of literary culture, while revealing how paradoxical that history can be
Content:
Introduction / Helen Wilcox -- Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman / Hilda L. Smith -- Religion and the construction of femininity / Suzanne Trill -- Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs / Valerie Wayne -- Women reading, reading women / Jacqueline Pearson -- Women/'women' and the stage / Ann Thompson -- Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry : Margaret Cavendish's poetry as case study / Bronwen Price -- Renaissance concepts of the 'woman writer' / Margaret W. Ferguson -- Courtly writing by women / Helen Hackett -- Women's poetry in early modern Britain / Elizabeth H. Hageman -- Women's writing and the self / Elspeth Graham -- The possibilities of prose / Betty S. Travitsky -- The first female dramatists / Ros Ballaster
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521462198
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521467773
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521462198
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511470363
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