Women writing back/writing women back
Subtitle: transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era
By: edited by Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk
Series: Intersections -- v. 16; Intersections (Boston, Mass.) -- v. 16.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9789004184633
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya; title: 'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay; title: Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai; title: 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert; title: Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio; title: Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier; title: Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray; title: The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink; title: Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots; title: French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner; title: The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea; title: A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater; title: Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse; title: Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer; title: 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia.