Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissance: Relative Values

ISBN-13: 9781349540853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 209 str.

Marion Wynne-Davies; M. Wynne-Davies

Opis

This book explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, but simultaneously closeted them within a form of writing that often encompassed genre, style, rhetoric and theme.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: English Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the Renaissance 'Though a temporall man, yet your very spirituall father': The Roper/Basset Line and the Lives of Thomas More 'Sory coumfortlesse Orphanes': The Rastell/Heywood Line Worthy of their Blood and their Vocation: The More/Cresacre Line Representations of Relations on the Political Stage within the Fitzalan/Lumley Household 'As I, for one, who thus my habits change': Mary Wroth and the Abandonment of the Sidney/Herbert Familial Discourse Sisters and Brothers: Divided Sibling Identity in the Cary Family Desire, Chastity and Rape in the Cavendish Familial Discourse Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

MARION WYNNE-DAVIES teaches English Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Dundee, UK. Her publications include Renaissance Women Dramatists: Texts and Documents (with S.P. Cerasano). She has also published on Shakespeare, Jonson and other early modern authors, as well as on women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.