| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 260 pages) : illustrations |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 521 |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 521
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| Contents |
Wise virgins : authority and authorship -- "Busie in my clositt" : letters, diaries, and autobiographical writing -- Negotiating a place in "eruditions garden" -- "Some inspired stile" : Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke -- "This worke of grace" : Elizabeth Middleton, Alice Sutcliffe, Rachel Speght, and Aemelia Lanyer -- "By publike language grac't" : Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland -- "To beg their fees" : the emergence of the professional woman writer -- "This strang labourinth" : Lady Mary Wroth -- "The lasting lampe." |
| Summary |
Did women have a Renaissance? Over the last decade much of the most eminent and significant scholarship in Renaissance studies has attempted to answer this question. Kim Walker's Women Writers of the English Renaissance takes a commanding lead among the responses. In a careful, current, and wide-ranging survey of Renaissance women writers, Walker examines the social, educational, economic, and ideological constraints under which women wrote; their attempts to move from the margin to the center of literary production; and their establishment of careers as professional writers. Both major and minor writers - poets, diarists, letter writers, romance writers, playwrights, and biographers - are discussed here in revealing, reliable, and provocative ways. Major writers including Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, and Mary Wroth are presented in a new, more broad perspective. Walker's synthesis of cultural history and literary criticism makes this volume a significant accomplishment that should be read by every scholar and student of the culture and literature of Tudor and Stuart England |
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Provides a critical introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance |
| Analysis |
English literature By Women History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cary, Elizabeth, Lady, 1585 or 1586-1639 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Cary, Elizabeth, Lady, 1585 or 1586-1639. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01811653 |
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Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of, 1561-1621. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00118339 |
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Wroth, Mary, Lady, approximately 1586-approximately 1640. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01858944 |
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Renaissance -- England.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
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Engels.
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Vrouwelijke auteurs.
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English literature -- Early modern.
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English literature -- Women authors.
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Renaissance.
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Women and literature.
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England.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96012874 |
| ISBN |
0805748253 |
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9780805748253 |
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