Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
Subtitle: Identity Formation and the Female Subject (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780521035217
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Eastern Europe; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Renaissance; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism-Eastern European; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: Margaret Cavendish, first Duchess of Newcastle, opens her memoir by recounting a crisis of conscience she faced in her courtly duties at Oxford in the early years of the English Civil War.