Texts from the Querelle, 1521-1615 : Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9780754631125 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 530 str.

Opis

A dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex was popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries.

Spis treści

Contents: Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; Christine de Pisan, Title page, Frontispiece, Part I (sigs. Aa2-Ff2) and Part 3 (sigs. Z2v-Z4v) in The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, Part 1 (trans Anslay, 1521); Thomas Elyot, The Defence of Good Women (1540); Edward Gosynhyll, The Scholehouse of women (1541?);The prayse of all women called Mulieru[m] Pean (1542); Robert Burdet or Robert Vaughan, A dyalogue defensyue for women (1542), A Letter sent by the Maydens of London (1567); C. Pyrrye, The Praise and Dispraise of Women (1569); Jane Anger, Iane Anger her Protection for Women (1588); Nicholas Breton, The Praise of vertuous Ladies, (sigs. Q4-Tv) in The Wil of Wit (1597); I.G., An apologie for Women-kinde (1605); Aemilia Lanyer, Title page and ’To the Vertvovs Reader’ (sigs. f3-f3v) in SalveE Devs Rex Ivdæorum(1611; STC 15227); Joseph Swetnam, The Araignment of lewd, idle, froward and vnconstant Women (1615).

O autorze

Pamela J. Benson is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.