The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing
Title | The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Danielle Clarke |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2014-06-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317883829 |
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.
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 |
Total Pages | 463 |
Release | 2018-01-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107137063 |
This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.
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 |
Total Pages | 339 |
Release | 2009-10-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521885272 |
Ideal for courses, this Companion examines the range, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain, 1500-1700.
Early Modern Women's Writing
Title | Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Martine van Elk |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 299 |
Release | 2017-01-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319332228 |
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.
A History of Early Modern Women's Writing
Title | A History of Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Phillippy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 463 |
Release | 2018-01-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108642276 |
A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. This collaborative book of twenty-two chapters offers an expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production in the period stretching from the English Reformation to the Restoration. Chapters work together to trace the contours of a diverse body of early modern women's writing, aligning women's texts with the major literary, political, and cultural currents with which they engage. Contributors examine and take account of developments in critical theory, feminism, and gender studies that have influenced the reception, reading, and interpretation of early modern women's writing. This book explicates and interrogates significant methodological and critical developments in the past four decades, guiding and testing scholarship in this period of intense activity in the recovery, dissemination, and interpretation of women's writing.
Reading Early Modern Women's Writing
Title | Reading Early Modern Women's Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Salzman |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2006-11-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191532045 |
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.
Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700
Title | Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 PDF eBook |
Author | J. Daybell |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2001-05-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0230598668 |
This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with women's letter writing during the Late Medieval and Early Modern period and shows that this was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has generally been assumed. The essays, contributed by many of the leading researchers active in the field, illustrate women's engagement in various activities, both literary and political, social and religious.