Women and Literature in Britain, 15001700
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 13, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780521462198
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Gender Studies; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Women As Authors (English Literature); Women and literature; English; Literary Criticism; History and criticism; Great Britain; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Social Science / Gender Studies; Early modern, 1500-1700; 16th century; 17th century; English literature; History
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.