| «Re»-Shaping the Genres: Restoration Women Writers Contributor(s): Luis-Martínez, Zenón (Editor), Figueroa Dorrego, Jorge (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3906769860 ISBN-13: 9783906769868 Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P OUR PRICE: $122.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 820.992 |
| LCCN: 2003058066 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.90 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: How did gender relate to the most relevant questions of genre in the literature of the English Restoration? This is the underlying topic of this collection of essays. The contributors undertake the analysis of the forms, contents, and contexts of the main literary modes of the period in the works of Margaret Cavendish, Anne Killigrew, Aphra Behn, Mary Pix, Delarivier Manley, Catherine Trotter, and Jane Barker. All the essays in this book share the assumption that late seventeenth-century women writers questioned and expanded existing conventions in poetry, drama and prose fiction, and at the same time opened paths in the configuration of major kinds of literature. Attentive to the most recent approaches of literary theory and criticism, such as new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism and reader-response criticism, this book intervenes in the present re-assessment of the role played by women in late seventeenth-century literature, and claims their necessary presence in alternative versions of the canon. Generic criteria have been used for the organization of the volume, which opens with studies on lyric poetry, continues with essays on drama, and concludes with contributions on different narrative modes. |