A companion to early modern women's writing

Author(s)

• Pacheco, Anita

Bibliographic Information

A companion to early modern women's writing

edited by Anita Pacheco

（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 13）

Blackwell, 2008

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

"First published 2002 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

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

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors x Introduction xiv PART ONE Contexts 1 1 Women and Education 3 Kenneth Charlton 2 Religion and the Construction of the Feminine 22 Diane Willen 3 Women, Property and Law 40 Tim Stretton 4 Women and Work 58 Sara H. Mendelson 5 Women and Writing 77 Margaret J. M. Ezell PART TWO Readings 95 6 Isabella Whitney, A Sweet Nosegay 97 Patricia Brace 7 Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Psalmes 110 Debra K. Rienstra 8 Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 125 Susanne Woods 9 Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam and History 136 Elaine Beilin 10 Mary Wroth, The Countess of Montgomery's Urania 150 Naomi J. Miller 11 Margaret Cavendish, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life 165 Gweno Williams 12 Anna Trapnel, Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea 177 Hilary Hinds 13 Katherine Philips, Poems 189 Elizabeth H. Hageman 14 Aphra Behn, The Rover, Part One 203 Anita Pacheco 15 Mary Astell, Critic of the Marriage Contract/Social Contract Analogue 216 Patricia Springborg PART THREE Genres 229 16 Autobiography 231 Sheila Ottway 17 Defences of Women 248 Frances Teague and Rebecca De Haas 18 Prophecy 264 Elaine Hobby 19 Women's Poetry 1550-1700: 'Not Unfit to be Read' 282 Bronwen Price 20 Prose Fiction 303 Paul Salzman 21 Drama 317 Sophie Tomlinson PART FOUR Issues and Debates 337 22 The Work of Women in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: The Canon, Early Modern Women Writers and the Postmodern Reader 339 Melinda Alliker Rabb 23 Feminist Historiography 361 Margo Hendricks Index 377

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Details

• NCID: BA86257365
• ISBN:
  • 9781405176118
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 391 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 820.928709031
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33407255