Reading early modern women's writing
By: Paul Salzman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780199261048
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Description: Most people, even within the area of English literature, are unaware of how much writing women produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. This book offers an outline of that writing, and also looks at how it was read and reproduced through succeeding centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: The scope of early modern women's writing; title: Poets high and low, visible and invisible; title: Mary Wroth : from obscurity to canonization; title: Anne Clifford : writing a family identity; title: Prophets and visionaries; title: Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson : authorship and ownership; title: Saint and sinner : Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn.