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

ISBN-13: 9781403986412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 209 str.

Marion Wynne-Davies

Opis

Through an exploration of key women writers of the early modern period, Marion Wynne-Davies demonstrates the ways in which female authors were both enabled and constrained by the writing traditions and influences within their families. The engagement with and participation in the construction of individual familial discourses is explained via an analysis of six Renaissance families: the Mores, Lumleys, Sidneys/Herberts, Carys and Cavendishes. While the book addresses the writings of male authors from these family groups, such as Sir Thomas More, John Donne, Philip Sidney, Lucius Cary and William Cavendish, its primary focus is on Margaret More/Roper, Gertrude More, Jane Lumley, Mary Wroth, Elizabeth Cary and Jane, Elizabeth and Margaret Cavendish.

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.