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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.
This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early modern women used complaint across a surprising variety of forms from the early-Tudor period to the late-seventeenth century. They were some of the mode’s first writers, most influential patrons, and most innovative contributors. Together, these new essays illuminate early modern women’s participation in one of the most powerful rhetorical modes in the English Renaissance, one which gave voice to political, religious and erotic protest and loss across a diverse range of texts. This volume interrogates new texts (closet drama, song, manuscript-based religious and political lyrics), new authors (Dorothy Shirley, Scots satirical writers, Hester Pulter, Mary Rowlandson), and new versions of complaint (biblical, satirical, legal, and vernacular). Its essays pay specific attention to politics, form, and transmission from complaint’s first circulation up to recent digital representations of its texts. Bringing together an international group of experts in early modern women’s writing and in complaint literature more broadly, this collection explores women’s role in the formation of the mode and in doing so reconfigures our understanding of complaint in Renaissance culture and thought.
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 study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, fiction, and manuscripts for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Among the texts considered are Katherine Parr, Lamentation of a Sinner; Anne Askew, The Examinations of Anne Askew; Dorothy Leigh, The Mothers Blessing; Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives; Anne Cornwallis's commonplace book (Folger MS V.a.89); Aemelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; The Death and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Bodleian MS Don.e.17), and Mary Wroth, The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania.
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.
This volume examines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing by exploring women's debts to and appropriations of different literary genres and offering practical suggestions for the teaching of women's texts.
Author : Sarah C. E. Ross Publisher : Cambridge University Press Page : 313 pages File Size : 36,46 MB Release : 2016-07-21 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 1107129958
Ciphered Politics offers a history of women's secret politicking in the early modern period by tracing the practice across literary genres and neglected archival materials. The book includes studies of more than forty under- and unexamined archival manuscripts to show how women writers encrypted political critiques in pastoral romances, biographies, biblical epics, gossip, letters, and petitions. My subjects include canonical writers, such as Mary Wroth and Lucy Hutchinson, as well as their understudied contemporaries, such as Frances Vane and Helen Hay Wariston. Ultimately, Ciphered Politics argues that politicking women writers influenced public sentiment, shaped literary tradition, and innovated constitutional orders in seventeenth-century England. Chapter 1 argues that Lucy Hutchinson's self-presentation is advanced at the expense of John's legacy such that it interferes with the commendatory aims of his biography, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. It shows how Lucy Hutchinson regularly eclipses her protagonist in order to preserve the history of her own expert political activism. Chapter 2 centers upon a single ciphered letter and key0́4exchanged between two disenfranchised Republican women0́4in order to reveal a complex tradition of women's secret epistolary culture. Tracing the material history of this letter which uses ciphers that are borrowed from the names of characters from prose romances, I recover a covert network of women, whose secret politicking was inspired by the romantic tradition. Chapter 3 attends to the letters, petitions, and interrogations of Republican and Royalist women preserved from 1660-1668. It recovers, transcribes, and contextualizes more than thirty archival manuscripts preserved in the State Papers, the majority of which are unpublished and untreated, to recover a complex dialectic exchange wherein female petitioners test and incline the will of the English monarch and his advisors in order to protect themselves, their husbands, and their property. Chapter four examines the material history and reception of Henry Vane's posthumous writing. Tracing readers' engagements, preserved in marginal evidence and diary entries, I argue that Henry Vane effectively used the genre of English martyrology to present himself and0́4importantly0́4his wife, Frances Vane, as exemplars of a providential genealogy that would inspire Milton's depiction of Eve in Paradise Lost.
This book investigates early modern women’s interventions in politics and the public sphere during times of civil war in England and France. Taking this transcultural and comparative perspective, and the period designation “early modern” expansively, Antigone’s Example identifies a canon of women’s civil-war writings; it elucidates their historical specificity as well as the transhistorical context of civil war, a context which, it argues, enabled women’s participation in political thought.