The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690

Volume Three
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-22460-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 339 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 5563 g

Reihe: History of British Women's Writing

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Suzuki, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; M.Suzuki PART I: NETWORKS, DEBATES, TRADITIONS, DISCOURSES  Identifying as (Women) Writers; P.Salzman Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women's Poetry; M.Matchinske All about Eve: Seventeenth Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall; S.Miller English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism; K.Gillespie PART II: MODES AND SITES  Seventeenth-Century Women's Manuscript Writing; V.Burke Reading Seventeenth-Century Women's Letters; S.Wiseman Women's Self-Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Monuments; P.Phillippy PART III: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LITERARY GENRES 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's Indefensible Apologies for Poesy; C.Kinney Valuing Early Modern Women's Verse in the Twenty-first Century; P.Hammons Early Modern Englishwomen Dramatists (1610-1690): New Perspectives; M.Wynne-Davies History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century; M.Reeves PART IV: REVISIONING CONTEXTS Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Early Modern Marriage in Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish's Plays; T.Jankowski 'The Empire of Man over the inferiour Creatures': British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science; C.Malcolmson Questioning Gender, War, and the 'Old Lie': The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish; J.Wright Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace; M.Suzuki English Women's Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610-90; B.Andrea Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

BERNADETTE ANDREA Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
VICTORIA E. BURKE Associate Professor of English, University of Ottawa, Canada
KATHARINE GILLESPIE Associate Professor of Seventeenth-Century English and Colonial American Literature, Miami University of Ohio, USA
PAMELA HAMMONS Associate Professor of English, University of Miami, USA
THEODORA A. JANKOWSKI Professor of English, Penn State Wilkes-Barre, USA
CLARE R. KINNEY Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA
CRISTINA MALCOLMSON Professor of English, Bates College, USA
MEGAN MATCHINSKE Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
SHANNON MILLER is Professor of English, Temple University, USA
PATRICIA PHILLIPPY Professor of English, Texas A&M University, USA
MARGARET REEVES Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada
PAUL SALZMAN Reader in English Literature, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
MIHOKO SUZUKI Professor of English, University of Miami, USA
SUSAN WISEMAN Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
MARION WYNNE-DAVIES Chair of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK