Reading early modern women's writing / Paul Salzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salzman, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Women and literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Most people, even within the area of English literature, are unaware of how much writing women produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book offer a clear, coherent outline of that writing, and also looks at how it was read and reproduced through succeeding centuries down to the present day. - ;This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a representative sample of that writing was published, circulated in manuscript, read, anthologised, reprinted, and discussed from t

Contents:

The scope of early modern women's writing

Poets high and low, visible and invisible

Mary Wroth : from obscurity to canonization

Anne Clifford : writing a family identity

Prophets and visionaries

Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson : authorship and ownership

Saint and sinner : Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.

ISBN:

1-4294-6020-2

1-280-75914-3

0-19-153204-5

OCLC:

437094069