Danielle Clarke

The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781138161535
• ISBN-10: 1138161535
• Artikelnr.: 69949428

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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