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The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing challenges the conventional view of Renaissance women as marginal to the cultural reproduction of the time.. Danielle Clarke examines the texts of women in the Renaissance period in relation to their social and historical contexts, while at the same time examining how women's experiences shaped their work .She discusses some of the more familiar, as well as lesser known, figures of their time, including, Mary Sidney, Countess of Penbroke, Isabella Whitney , Lady Mary Wroth , Anne Lok, Aemilia Lanyer Lady Anne Southwell, Eliazabeth Cary, Martha Moulsworth, Elizabeth Colville, Diana Primrose and Anne Cooke Bacon. Also available in Hardcover - 0-582-30910-7, $89.95.
The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing: Longman Medieval and Renaissance Library FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing challenges the conventional view of Renaissance women as marginal to the cultural reproduction of the time.. Danielle Clarke examines the texts of women in the Renaissance period in relation to their social and historical contexts, while at the same time examining how women's experiences shaped their work .She discusses some of the more familiar, as well as lesser known, figures of their time, including, Mary Sidney, Countess of Penbroke, Isabella Whitney , Lady Mary Wroth , Anne Lok, Aemilia Lanyer Lady Anne Southwell, Eliazabeth Cary, Martha Moulsworth, Elizabeth Colville, Diana Primrose and Anne Cooke Bacon.
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Clarke (English, U. College Dublin) provides a survey of both major and marginal women writers of the Renaissance, considering ways in which politics are encoded in choices of register, genre, timing, form of circulation, and type of articulation. She examines various genres used by women writers from 1558-1640; their treatment of issues of state, culture, religion, and subjecthood; and their active engagement with the major ideas and controversies of their time. The study is intended primarily for students and scholars of women's writing, gender studies, history, and literature, but it is also accessible to general readers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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