Reading Early Modern Women's Writing.
Title:
Reading Early Modern Women's Writing.
Author:
Salzman, Paul.
ISBN:
9780191532047
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: 'Were They That Name?': Categorizing Early Modern Women's Writing -- 1. The Scope of Early Modern Women's Writing -- 2. Poets High and Low, Visible and Invisible -- 3. Mary Wroth: From Obscurity to Canonization -- 4. Anne Clifford: Writing a Family Identity -- 5. Prophets and Visionaries -- 6. Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson: Authorship and Ownership -- 7. Saint and Sinner: Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Most people, even within the area of English literature, are unaware of how much writing women produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book offer a clear, coherent outline of that writing, and also looks at how it was read and reproduced through succeeding centuries down to the present day.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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