'This double voice' : gendered writing in early modern England / edited by Danielle Clarke and Elizabeth Clarke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clarke, Danielle, 1966-

Clarke, Elizabeth, 1954-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Early modern literature in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Women and literature--England--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

England.

History.

Women and literature--England--History--17th century.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Women authors.

English literature--Male authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Male authors.

Literature and history--Great Britain.

Literature and history.

Great Britain.

Gender identity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Men in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages : genealogical table ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

"The Double Voice" reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent.

Contents:

Female authority and authorization strategies in early modern Europe / Jane Stevenson

'In a mirrour clere': Protestantism and politics in Anne Lok's Miserere mei Deus / Rosalind Smith

'Formd into words by your divided lips': women, rhetoric and the Ovidian tradition / Danielle Clarke

The voices of Anne Cooke, Lady Anne and Lady Bacon / Alan Stewart

Old wives' tales retold: the mutations of the Fairy Queen / Diane Purkiss

Giving time to women: the eternizing project in early modern England / Amy Boesky

The 'double voice' of renaissance equity and the literary voices of women / Lorna Hutson

'For worth, not weakness, makes in use but one': literary dialogues in an English renaissance family / Marion Wynne-Davis

'Whom the Lord with love affecteth': gender and the religious poet, 1590-1633 / Helen Wilcox

Ejaculation or virgin birth? the gendering of the religious lyric in the Interregnum / Elizabeth Clarke

Unfettered organs: the polemical voices of Katherine Philips / James Loxley

A voice for hermaphroditical education / Frances Teague.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312232209

OCLC:

43115160