A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing

Herausgeber: Pacheco, Anita

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. It brings together new work by twenty-four of the best contemporary scholars who are pushing forward the boundaries of scholarship on early modern women's writing from both sides of the Atlantic. The contributions balance a specific focus on individual texts with a broader examination of the relevant social and cultural contexts of early modern women's writing, its generic diversity and some of the main theoretical questions that underpin its study. Ten key texts are considered, along with the major genres in which early modern women wrote and the theoretical issues to which their work gives rise. The volume provides readers with a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to literary culture in early modern Britain. It will be welcomed by all those who teach courses on women writers and early modern women writers, and by those who wish to integrate more women writers into their Renaissance courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 968g
• ISBN-13: 9780631217022
• ISBN-10: 0631217029
• Artikelnr.: 21800763

Autorenporträt

Anita Pacheco is a Lecturer in the English Department at the Open University. She has written extensively on Aphra Behn and early modern drama and is the author of Shakespeare's Coriolanus (2007) in the Writers and their Work series. She is the editor of Early Women Writers 1600-1720 (1998) and joint editor (with John Stachniewski) of John Bunyan: Grace Abounding with Other Spiritual Autobiographies (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Anita Pacheco.

Part I: Women in Early Modern England: Contexts.

Part II: Readings.

Part III: Genres.

Part IV: Issues and Debates.

Rezensionen

"Pacheco (humanities, Univ. of Hertfordshire) has produced amuch-needed collection that puts into historical and literaryperspective the study of early modern women and their writings.[...] In scholarship and critical depth, this volume comparesfavourably to the many recent publications on early modern women;what makes it particularly useful is its accessibility to studentsjust becoming acquainted with the field."
Choice

"This is a worthwhile and well-produced volume ... [it] wouldmake an excellent core text for students on courses on early modernwomen's writing or gender studies[.]"
English Historical Review