The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9780582309098 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 302 str.

Danielle Clarke

Opis

This title challenges the conventional view of Renaissance women as marginal to the cultural reproduction of the time. It examines texts written by women in relation to their social and historical contexts and looks at how women's lived experiences shaped their work.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Women, language and rhetoric  2. The Renaissance debate about women  3. Drama and the gendered political subject  4. Writing the divine: faith and poetry  5. Poetry, politics and gender  6. Women reading and writing romance  Epilogue  Bibliography  Index   

O autorze

Danielle Clarke is Lecturer in English at University College Dublin. She is the co-editor of 'This Double Voice'- Gendered Writing in Early Modern England (2000), editor of Three Renaissance Women Poets- Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer (2000) and the author of articles on women's writing, sexuality and critical theory.