Women and Literature in Britain, 1500-1700Helen Wilcox Cambridge University Press, 13/11/1996 - 307 páginas This is the first comprehensive introduction to the works and social contexts of women writers in early modern Britain, a paradoxical 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. Leading scholars examine the history of women's role in and access to literary culture, and the work of individual women writers. A unique chronology offers a woman-centered perspective on historical and literary events, and there is a guide to further reading. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman | 9 |
Religion and the construction of femininity | 30 |
Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs | 56 |
Women reading reading women | 80 |
Womenwomen and the stage | 100 |
Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry Margaret Cavendishs poetry as case study | 117 |
Renaissance concepts of the woman writer | 143 |
Courtly writing by women | 169 |
Womens poetry in early modern Britain | 190 |
Womens writing and the self | 209 |
The possibilities of prose | 234 |
The first female dramatists | 267 |
Further reading | 291 |
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