Women, texts, and histories, 1575-1760

Author(s)

• Brant, Clare
• Purkiss, Diane

Bibliographic Information

Women, texts, and histories, 1575-1760

edited by Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss

Routledge, 1992

• : cloth
• : pbk

Other Title

Women, texts & histories, 1575-1760

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-287) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780415053693

Description

The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women. Subject to silence, censorship and manipulation in the terms of overriding political concerns of the day, the feminist history of the early modern period is still a largely unwritten story. New feminist analysis can expose the conditions of production in which the history of the period was constructed: this revealing collection thereby exposes the untold stories which underpin the official texts. By beginning to explore this period from women's point of view, "Women, Texts and Histories" shows the crucial and fascinating ways in which women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in English literature, history and women's studies.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415053709

Description

The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women. Subject to silence, censorship and manipulation in the terms of overriding political concerns of the day, the feminist history of the early modern period is still a largely unwritten story. New feminist analysis can expose the conditions of production in which the history of the period was constructed: this revealing new Collection thereby exposes the untold stories which underpin the official texts. By beginning to explore this period from women's point of view, Women, Texts and Histories shows the crucial and fascinating ways in which women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended.

Table of Contents

Contributors include: Rosalind Ballaster, Hero Chalmers, Helen Hackett, Lorna Hutson, Kate Lilley, Bridget Orr, Sophie Tomlinson, Susan Wiseman

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Details

• NCID: BA18582985
• ISBN:
  • 0415053692
  • 0415053706
• LCCN: 91032120
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 299 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR113
  • DC20 : 820.9/352042/0903
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- England -- History