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A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing.

• Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing
• Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn
• Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study
• Provides a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to early modern literary culture

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
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• Größe: 1.12MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470692776
• Artikelnr.: 38206366

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