Gender and Representations of the Female Subject in Early Modern England [electronic resource] : Creating Their Own Meanings /
Kusunoki, Akiko.author.
This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- 1. Emerging New Attitudes towards Women in Early Jacobean England -- 2. Female Selfhood and Ideologies of Marriage in Early Jacobean Drama: The Duchess of Malfi and The Tragedy of Mariam -- 3. Lady Mary Wroth and Ideologies of Marriage in Late Jacobean England -- 4. Representing Elizabeth I in Jacobean England -- 5. Women and Publishing Their Works -- Conclusion.
This book examines the interactions between social assumptions about womanhood and women's actual voices represented in plays and writings by authors of both genders in Jacobean England, placing the special emphasis on Lady Mary Wroth.
Poetry.
Sociology.
Literature, Modern.
British literature.
Literature—History and criticism.
Poetry and Poetics.
Gender Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary History.