The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing

ISBN-13: 9781138161535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 302 str.

Danielle Clarke

Opis

An introduction to the ever-expanding field of early modern women’s writing, which challenges the conventional view of Renaissance women as marginal to the cultural reproduction of the time.

Far from conforming to the conventional ‘chaste, silent and obedient’ model, or merely working from the ‘margins’ of Renaissance culture, women in the early modern period engaged centrally with many of the major ideas and controversies of their time. The author discusses many previously neglected texts and authors, as well as more familiar figures such as Mary Sidney, Countess of Penbroke, Isabella Whitney and Lady Mary Wroth. Examining the importance of genres and forms of circulation in the production of meaning, this survey will be of interest both to readers encountering the material for the first time, and to those working in the fields of women’s writing, gender studies, history and literature.

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.