Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
Record Number
|
:
|
990072
|
Doc. No
|
:
|
b744442
|
Title & Author
|
:
|
Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700 /\ edited by Helen Wilcox.
|
Publication Statement
|
:
|
Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1996.
|
Page. NO
|
:
|
xiv, 307 pages ;; 23 cm
|
ISBN
|
:
|
0521462193
|
|
:
|
: 0521467772
|
|
:
|
: 9780521462198
|
|
:
|
: 9780521467773
|
Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
Contents
|
:
|
Introduction / Helen Wilcox -- Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman / Hilda L. Smith -- Religion and the construction of femininity / Suzanne Trill -- Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs / Valerie Wayne -- Women reading, reading women / Jacqueline Pearson -- Women/'women' and the stage / Ann Thompson -- Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry : Margaret Cavendish's poetry as case study / Bronwen Price -- Renaissance concepts of the 'woman writer' / Margaret W. Ferguson -- Courtly writing by women / Helen Hackett -- Women's poetry in early modern Britain / Elizabeth H. Hageman -- Women's writing and the self / Elspeth Graham -- The possibilities of prose / Betty S. Travitsky -- The first female dramatists / Ros Ballaster.
|
Abstract
|
:
|
This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a period when it was considered unfeminine to write and yet women were the authors of many poems, translations, conduct books, autobiographies, plays, pamphlets and other texts. Drawing together the pioneering work of feminist literary critics and historians, this survey examines ways in which the idea of woman was constructed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and women's role in and access to literary culture. It also focuses on women writers and their output across the spectrum of genres from courtly romance to Quaker prophecy. A unique chronology offers a woman-centred perspective on historical and literary events, and there is a guide to further reading. Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700 explores the history of women's part in the development of literary culture, while revealing how paradoxical that history can be.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Börngen, ...
|
|
:
|
Englisch, ...
|
Subject
|
:
|
English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
|
Subject
|
:
|
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 16th century.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Écrits de femmes anglais-- Histoire et critique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Femmes et littérature-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 16e siècle.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Femmes et littérature-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 17e siècle.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Littérature anglaise-- 16e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Littérature anglaise-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Aufsatzsammlung
|
Subject
|
:
|
English literature-- Early modern.
|
Subject
|
:
|
English literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
|
Subject
|
:
|
English literature-- Women authors.
|
Subject
|
:
|
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Femmes et littérature-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1485-1603 (Tudors)
|
Subject
|
:
|
Femmes-- Dans la littérature.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Frau
|
Subject
|
:
|
Frauenliteratur
|
Subject
|
:
|
Literarisches Leben
|
Subject
|
:
|
Literatur
|
Subject
|
:
|
Littérature anglaise-- Femmes écrivains-- Histoire et critique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Littérature anglaise-- 16e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Littérature anglaise-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Schriftstellerin
|
Subject
|
:
|
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- 16th century.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Women and literature-- Great Britain-- 17th century, Congresses.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Women and literature.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Frau.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Engels.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Letterkunde.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Vrouwen.
|
Subject
|
:
|
England
|
Subject
|
:
|
Englisch.
|
Subject
|
:
|
Great Britain.
|
Dewey Classification
|
:
|
820.9928709031
|
LC Classification
|
:
|
PR113.W65 1996
|
NLM classification
|
:
|
18.05bcl
|
|
:
|
HI 1115rvk
|
|
:
|
HI 1117rvk
|
|
:
|
HI 1140rvk
|
Added Entry
|
:
|
Wilcox, Helen.
|