Helen Wilcox (ed.)

Women and Literature in Britain, 1500 1700

Herausgeber: Wilcox, Helen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First comprehensive introduction to women's role in, and access to, literary culture in early modern Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521467773
• ISBN-10: 0521467772
• Artikelnr.: 22419433

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology: Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700
Introduction Helen Wilcox
Part I. Constructing Women in Early Modern Britain: 1. Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of women Hilda L. Smith
2. Religion and the construction of femininity Suzanne Trill
3. Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs Valerie Wayne
4. Women reading, reading women Jacqueline Pearson
5. Women/'women' and the stage Ann Thompson
6. Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry Bronwen Price
Part II. Writing Women in Early Modern Britian: 7. Renaissance concepts of the 'woman writer' Margaret W. Ferguson
8. Courtly writing by women Helen Hackett
9. Women's poetry in early modern Britain Elizabeth H. Hageman
10. Women's writing and the self Elspeth Graham
11. The possibilities of prose Betty S. Travitsky
12. The first female dramatists Ros Ballaster
Further reading.