Megan Matchinske

Women Writing History in Early Modern England

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates and documents fascinating accounts written by seventeenth-century Englishwomen, which explore the shifting relationships between past and future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9780521508674
• ISBN-10: 0521508673
• Artikelnr.: 26152648

Inhaltsangabe

1. Strategies for survival: gender, ethics and history; 2. Truth in the
telling: moral, method and history in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie;
3. Gendering Catholic conformity: equivocal history and cultural context in
Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscelanea; 4. From here to 'henceforth': history,
gender and identity in the diary writing of Lady Anne Clifford; 5.
Receptive readers: dissimulation and historical truth in Mary Carleton's
bigamy trials; 6. The 'dying-tale': history and the ethics of action;
Bibliography.