Women and Literature in Britain, 15001700
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780521467773
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Sociology; Great Britain; English literature; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; History; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gender Studies; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science-Gender Studies; Early modern, 1500-1700; Women and literature; 16th century; 17th century; History and criticism
First sentence: Women, or 'woman' to use language more familiar to sixteenth and seventeenth century authors, composed a group that early modern writers felt obliged both to define and to advise.