Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England: Identity Formation and the Female Subject

ISBN-13: 9780521622547 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 264 str.

Megan Matchinske; Stephen Orgel; Anne Barton

Opis

The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated self, to civil war perceptions of the self as a site of civil control. Each centers on the work of an early modern woman writer in the act of self-definition and authorization, illustrating the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining different identities for men and women.

Recenzje

'… succeed[s] in emphasising the variety of early modern women's writing.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Resistance, Reformation, and the remaining narratives; 2. Framing recusant identity in counter-Reformation England; 3. Legislating morality in the marriage market; 4. Gender formation in English apocalyptic writing; 5. Connections, qualifications, and agendas; Notes; Bibliography; Index.