The History of British Women's Writing, 1500-1610

Volume Two
2010
ISBN: 978-1-137-35041-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: History of British Women's Writing

Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this new volume examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Summit, J.

Bicks, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Chronology; E.Vyroubalová Introduction; C.Bicks & J.Summit PART I: READING AND WRITING Reading Women; H.Brayman Hackel Literary Circles and Coteries; J.Crawford Women in Early English Print Culture; A.Coldiron PART II: COMESTIC SETTINGS Household Writing; C.Richardson Maternal Advice; E.Snook Letters; L.Magnusson PART III: PLAYING SPACES The Street; P.A.Brown The Theater; M.Wynne-Davies PART IV: THE TUDOR COURT The Court; C.Sale Elizabeth I; C.Coch PART V: DEVELOPING HISTORIES Religious Writing and Reformation; N.Bradley Warren Race and Skin Color in Early Modern Women's Writing; S.Iyengar Translation/Historical Writing; C.Laoutaris Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Bicks, Associate Professor of English, Boston College, USA
Heidi Brayman Hackel, Associate Professor of English, University of California at Riverside, USA
Pamela Allen Brown, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut, Stamford, USA
Christine Coch, Associate Professor of English, The College of the Holy Cross, USA
A.E.B. Coldiron Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, USA
Julie Crawford, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA
Sujata Iyengar, Associate Professor of English, University of Georgia, USA
Chris Laoutaris, British Academy Post Doctoral Fellow, University College London, UK
Lynne Magnusson, Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada
Catherine Richardson, Director of the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent, UK
Carolyn Sale, Assistant Professor of English, University of Alberta, Canada
Edith Snook, Associate Professor of English, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Jennifer Summit, Professor and Chair in the Department of English, Stanford University, USA
Ema Vyroubalová, Doctoral Candidate in English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA
Nancy Bradley Warren, Professor of English and Courtesy Professor of Religion, Florida State University, USA
Marion Wynne-Davies, Chair of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK