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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
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ISBN : 1496231546
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A History of Early Modern Women's Writing
Patricia Phillippy
Author : Patricia Phillippy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : 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.
A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
Anita Pacheco
Author : Anita Pacheco
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470692774
This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study Provides a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to early modern literary culture
Early Modern Women's Writing
Paul Salzman
Author : Paul Salzman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1115 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0191605425
In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of her brother William, except that she had none of his chances. The truth is that many women wrote during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and this collection will serve to introduce modern readers to the full variety of women's writing in this period from poems, prose and fiction to prophecies, letters, tracts and philosophy. The collection begins with the poetry of Isabella Whitney, who worked in a gentlewoman's household in London in the late 1560s, and ends with Aphra Behn who was employed as a spy in Amsterdam by Charles II. Here are examples of the work of twelve women writers, allowing the reader to sample the diverse and lively output of all classes and opinions, from artistcrats such as Mary Wroth, Anne Clifford and Margaret Cavendish to women of obscure background caught up in the religious ferment of the mid seventeenth century like Hester Biddle, Pricscilla Cotton and Mary Cole. The collection includes three plays, and a generous selection of poetry, letters, diary, prose fiction, religious polemic, prohecy and scienticficic speculation, offering the reader the possibilility of tracing patterns through the works collected and some sense of historical shifts and changes. All the extracts are edited afresh from original sources and the anthology includes comprehensive notes, both explanatory and textual. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Early Women Writers
Anita Pacheco
Author : Anita Pacheco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317884450
The last twenty years have witnessed the rediscovery of a large number of women writers of the early modern period. This process of recovery has had a major impact on early modern studies for, by beginning to restore women to the history of the period, it provides new insight into the formative years of the modern era. This collection amply demonstrates the diversity as well as the literary and historical significance of early women's writing. It brings together studies by an impressive range of critics, including Elaine Hobby, Catherine Gallagher, Jane Spencer and Laura Brown, and examines the major works of five of the most important women writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, Aphra Behn and Anne Finch. The range of authors it covers, and the challenging critical work it presents, make Early Women Writers: 1600-1720 essential reading for students of feminist theory, Women's Studies and Cultural Studies, as well as for all those interested in the history and literature of the early modern period.
Attending to Early Modern Women
Susan Dwyer Amussen
Author : Susan Dwyer Amussen
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780874136500
This volume continues and amplifies a series of conversations initiated in 1990 at the conference, "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," sponsored by the University of Maryland's Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies on the College Park campus. The volume celebrates the work of the almost 400 scholars who contributed - as plenary speakers, workshop leaders, and participants - to "Attending to Early Modern Women," held in April 1994, once again at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty
P. Pender
Author : P. Pender
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137008016
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
Paul Salzman
Author : Paul Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1443823627
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.
Women's Writing in English
Patricia Demers
Author : Patricia Demers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802086640
This wide-ranging examination of the genres of early modern women's writing embraces translation in the fields of theological discourse, romance and classical tragedy, original meditations and prayers, letters and diaries, poetry, closet drama, advice manuals, and prophecies and polemics.
Profitable Examples
Ashley Danielle Ryle
Author : Ashley Danielle Ryle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2022
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Early modern women's life-writing encompasses a set of genres that have yet to be fully explored from a literary-critical perspective. This dissertation provides and enacts a new methodology for the study of these highly individualized and surprising works. By using a feminist formalist perspective, the rhetorically and grammatically constructed textual voices of early modern women writers are defined and examined. Early modern women wrote their lives to provide evidence for the truth of their lived experiences. In these works, women create textual voices that reinvigorate rhetorical authority and cultivate individual grammars. Their insistence on firsthand accounting as the only viable mode of truth-telling becomes an excuse to speak in a culture that discouraged women's participation in most areas. Writers and genres under discussion include Margaret Hoby and Anne Clifford (diary); Anne Denton and Lucy/Magdalena Cary (biography); Dionys Fitzherbert and Margaret Cavendish (autobiography); and Anne Conway, Dorothy Osborne, and Lydia DuGard (letters). Each writer and each life-writing genre demonstrates the various applications of feminist formalism to early modern women's writing: I offer a set of profitable examples. Early modern women's life-writing is often defensive, incomplete, and communal, suggesting a complicated portrait of early modern women as simultaneously beleaguered by and connected to the domestic and political environments in which they lived. Through syntax, material arrangement, and rhetorical tradition these writers test the limits of the diary, the biography, the autobiography, and the letter, as well as their individual linguistic craftsmanship.