302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing provides an introduction to the ever-expanding field of early modern women's writing by reading texts in their historical and social contexts. Covering a wide range of forms and genres, the author shows that rather than women conforming to the conventional 'chaste, silent and obedient' model, or merely working from the 'margins' of Renaissance... Read more
Introduction 1. Women, language and rhetoric 2. The Renaissance debate about women 3. Drama and the gendered political subject 4. Writing the divine: faith and poetry 5. Poetry, politics and gender 6. Women reading and writing romance Epilogue Bibliography Index
Biography
Danielle Clarke is Lecturer in English at University College Dublin. She is the co-editor of 'This Double Voice'- Gendered Writing in Early Modern England (2000), editor of Three Renaissance Women Poets- Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer (2000) and the author of articles on women's writing, sexuality and critical theory.
