Romancing the self in early modern Englishwomen's life writing

著者

• Eckerle, Julie A.

書誌事項

Romancing the self in early modern Englishwomen's life writing

Julie A. Eckerle

（Women and gender in the early modern world）

Ashgate, c2013

• : hbk

注記

Bibliography: p. [187]-207

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genres. In so doing, it operates at the intersection of several recent trends: interest in women's contributions to autobiography; greater awareness of the diversity and flexibility of auto/biographical forms in the early modern period; and the use of manuscripts and other material evidence to trace literacy practices. Through analysis of a wide variety of life writings by early modern Englishwomen-including Elizabeth Delaval, Dorothy Calthorpe, Ann Fanshawe, and Anne Halkett-Julie A. Eckerle demonstrates that these women were not only familiar with the controversial romance genre but also deeply influenced by it. Romance, she argues, with its unending tales of unsatisfying love, spoke to something in women's experience; offered a model by which they could recount their own disappointments in a world where arranged marriage and often loveless matches ruled the day; and exerted a powerful, pervasive pressure on their textual self-formations. Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing documents a vibrant secular form of auto/biographical writing that coexisted alongside numerous spiritual forms, providing a much more nuanced and complete understanding of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women's reading and writing literacies.

目次

• Contents: Introduction: life writing through the lens of romance
• Women's literacy practices and the mechanics of reading romance
• The woman's autobiographical voice in early modern romance
• Becoming the heroine
• The specter of romance
• Romancing the self in autobiographical romance
• Bibliography
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB13284648
• ISBN:
  • 9781409443780
• LCCN: 2012050688
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Farnham
• ページ数/冊数: 217 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 820.949207209031
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Women authors
  • LCSH : English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Autobiography -- Women authors
  • LCSH : Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 16th century
  • LCSH : Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Love stories -- Influence
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA53936463