1st Edition
Texts from the Querelle, 1641–1701 (2) Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 4
By Laura L. Runge
Copyright 2007
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
The querelle des femmes was a debate over the condition of women in society lasting four centuries and characteristically involved charges against female vice, folly, corruption, incontinence and lasciviousness, countered by pro-women defences and lists of exemplary women. The texts in these two volumes range from broadside parliamentary petitions to verse satire, from sermons to philosophical... Read more
Contents: Preface by the General Edtors; Introductory note; Two Contrapuntal Defences: A dialogue concerning women, William Walsh (1691); An essay in defence of the female sex, [?Judith Drake](1696).
Biography
Laura L. Runge is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Florida, USA.
