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A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
Contributor(s): Pacheco, Anita (Editor)
ISBN: 0631217029     ISBN-13: 9780631217022
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $266.90  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2002
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Annotation: 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.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Feminist
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 820.992
LCCN: 2003467550
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Physical Information: 1.39" H x 6.12" W x 8.8" (1.93 lbs) 412 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:
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