The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690 [electronic resource] : Volume Three /
Suzuki, M.editor.
During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Preface; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Chronology; Introduction; Part I: Networks, Debates, Traditions, Discourses; 1 Identifying as (Women) Writers; 2 Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women's Poetry; 3 All about Eve: Seventeenth-Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall; 4 English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism; Part II: Modes and Sites; 5 Seventeenth-Century Women's Manuscript Writing; 6 Reading Seventeenth-Century Women's Letters
7 'Herselfe livinge, to be pictured': 'Monumental Circles' and Women's Self-PortraiturePart III: New Perspectives on Literary Genres; 8 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's Indefensible Apologies for Poesy; 9 Valuing Early Modern Women's Verse in the Twenty-First Century; 10 Early Modern English Women Dramatists (1610-1690): New Perspectives; 11 History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century; Part IV: Revisioning Contexts; 12 Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Marriage
13 'The Empire of Man over the inferior Creatures': British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science14 Questioning Gender, War, and 'the Old Lie': The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish; 15 Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace; 16 English Women's Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610-1690; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.
British literature.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern.
Literature-Philosophy.
British and Irish Literature.
Gender Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary Theory.