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Author : Eike Grossmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111382982
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures written by Eike Grossmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-06-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marilynn Desmond
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472031832
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Myth, Montage, & Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture written by Marilynn Desmond and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad multidisciplinary study that uses the Epistre Othea to examine the visual presentation of knowledge
Author : Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1903153328
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Women and Writing, C.1340-c.1650 written by Anne Lawrence-Mathers and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence, looking at women's participation in the making of books, and the traces they left when they encountered actual volumes. Finally, studies of women's roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts, such as letters, pamphlets and almanacs, challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres as well as between manuscript and print --Book Jacket.
Author : James Daybell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134771916
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 written by James Daybell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and Epistolary Agency in Early Modern Culture, 1450–1690 is the first collection to examine the gendered nature of women’s letter-writing in England and Ireland from the late-fifteenth century through to the Restoration. The essays collected here represent an important body of new work by a group of international scholars who together look to reorient the study of women’s letters in the contexts of early modern culture. The volume builds upon recent approaches to the letter, both rhetorical and material, that have the power to transform the ways in which we understand, study and situate early modern women’s letter-writing, challenging misconceptions of women’s letters as intrinsically private, domestic and apolitical. The essays in the volume embrace a range of interdisciplinary approaches: historical, literary, palaeographic, linguistic, material and gender-based. Contributors deal with a variety of issues related to early modern women’s correspondence in England and Ireland. These include women’s rhetorical and persuasive skills and the importance of gendered epistolary strategies; gender and the materiality of the letter as a physical form; female agency, education, knowledge and power; epistolary networks and communication technologies. In this volume, the study of women’s letters is not confined to writings by women; contributors here examine not only the collaborative nature of some letter-writing but also explore how men addressed women in their correspondence as well as some rich examples of how women were constructed in and through the letters of men. As a whole, the book stands as a valuable reassessment of the complex gendered nature of early modern women’s correspondence.
Author : Marcus Nevitt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872176
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640-1660 written by Marcus Nevitt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an analysis of the ways in which groups of non-aristocratic women circumvented a number of interdictions against female participation in the pamphlet culture of revolutionary England, this book is primarily a study of female agency. Despite the fact that pamphlets, or cheap unbound books, have recently been located among the most inclusive or democratic aspects of the social life of early modern England, this study provides a more gender-sensitive picture. Marcus Nevitt argues instead that throughout the revolutionary decades pamphlet culture was actually constructed around the public silence and exclusion of women. In support of his thesis, he discusses more familiar seventeenth-century authors such as John Milton, John Selden and Thomas Edwards in relation to the less canonical but equally forceful writings of Katherine Chidley, Elizabeth Poole, Mary Pope, 'Parliament Joan' and a large number of Quaker women. This is the first sustained study of the relationship between female agency and cheap print throughout the revolutionary decades 1640 to 1660. It adds to the study of gender in the field of the English Revolution by engaging with recent work in the history of the book, stressing the materiality of texts and the means and physical processes by which women's writing emerged through the printing press and networks of publication and dissemination. It will stimulate welcome debate about the nature and limits of discursive freedom in the early modern period, and for women in particular.
Author : JoniM. Hand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351536532
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350?550 " written by JoniM. Hand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Joni M. Hand sheds light on the reasons women of the Valois courts from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century commissioned devotional manuscripts. Visually interpreting the non-text elements-portraits, coats of arms, and marginalia-as well as the texts, Hand explores how the manuscripts were used to express the women?s religious, political, and/or genealogical concerns. This study is arranged thematically according to the method in which the owner is represented. Recognizing the considerable influence these women had on the appearance of their books, Hand interrogates how the manuscripts became a means of self-expression beyond the realm of devotional practice. She reveals how noblewomen used their private devotional manuscripts as vehicles for self-definition, to reflect familial, political, and social concerns, and to preserve the devotional and cultural traditions of their families. Drawing on documentation of women?s book collections that has been buried within the inventories of their fathers, husbands, or sons, Hand explores how these women contributed to the cultural and spiritual character of the courts, and played an integral role in the formation and evolution of the royal libraries in Northern Europe.
Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199651582
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book 'Grossly Material Things' written by Helen Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting point, asking who made the books of the English Renaissance. It recovering the ways in which women participated as co-authors, editors, translators, patrons, printers, booksellers, and readers.
Author : Diana Tietjens Meyers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190208333
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Gender in the Mirror written by Diana Tietjens Meyers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.
Author : Ian Atherton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719071584
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (715 download)
Download or read book The 1630s written by Ian Atherton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the Caroline era - a period of great importance to English history in the build-up to the Civil War, these essays address politics, religion, the monarchy, culture, literature, and art history.
Author : R. Ballaster
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230298354
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750 written by R. Ballaster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries.
Author : Rosemary O'Day
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317886313
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Women's Agency in Early Modern Britain and the American Colonies written by Rosemary O'Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in early modern Britain and colonial America were not the weak husband- and father-dominated characters of popular myth. Quite the reverse, strong women were the norm. They exercised considerable influence as important agents in the social, economic, religious and cultural life of their societies. This book shows how women on both sides of the Atlantic, while accepting a patriarchal system with all its advantages and disadvantages, contrived to carve out for themselves meaningful lives. Unusually it concentrates not only on the making and meaning of marriage, but also upon the partnership between men and women. It also looks at the varied roles – cultural, religious and educational – that women played both inside and outside marriage during the key period 1500-1760. Women emerge as partners, patrons, matchmakers, investors and network builders.
Author : Michelle O'Callaghan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108869939
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England written by Michelle O'Callaghan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The printed poetry anthologies first produced in sixteenth-century England have long been understood as instrumental in shaping the history of English poetry. This book offers a fresh approach to this history by turning attention to the recreative properties of these books, both in the sense of making again, of crafting and recrafting, and of poetry as a pleasurable pastime. The model of materiality employed extends from books-as-artefacts to their embodiedness - their crafted, performative, and expressive capacities. Publishers invariably advertised the recreational uses of anthologies, locating these books in early modern performance cultures in which poetry was read, silently and in company, sometimes set to music, and re-crafted into other forms. Engaging with studies of material cultures, including work on craft, households, and soundscapes, Crafting Poetry Anthologies argues for a domestic Renaissance in which anthologies travelled across social classes, shaping recreational cultures that incorporated men and women in literary culture.
Author : Margaret Lael Mikesell
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138252
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Culture and Change written by Margaret Lael Mikesell and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These issues of city-building and institutional change involved more than the familiar push and pull of interest groups or battles between bosses, reformers, immigrants, and natives. Revell explores the ways in which technical values - a distinctive civic culture of expertise - helped to reshape ideas of community, generate new centers of public authority, and change the physical landscape of New York City."--Jacket.
Author : Pelagia Goulimari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351586262
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Women Writing Across Cultures written by Pelagia Goulimari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together an international, multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman,” “writing,” “women’s writing,” and “across.” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines, genres, and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist, queer, and transgender theory and criticism, and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses, disciplines, media, genres, genders; writing across pronouns – he, she, they; writing across literature, non-literary texts, and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.
Author : Susannah Crowder
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526106418
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Performing women written by Susannah Crowder and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes on a key problem in the history of drama: the ‘exceptional’ staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Exploring the lives and performances of these previously anonymous women, the book brings the elusive figure of the female performer to centre stage. It integrates new approaches to drama, gender and patronage with a performance methodology to explore how the women of fifteenth-century Metz enacted varied kinds of performance that extended beyond the theatre. For example, decades before the 1468 play, Joan of Arc returned from the grave in the form of an impersonator named Claude. Offering a new paradigm of female performance that positions women at the core of public culture, Performing women is essential reading for scholars of pre-modern women and drama, and is also relevant to lecturers and students of late-medieval performance, religion and memory.
Author : P. Pender
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137342439
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing written by P. Pender and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the diverse material cultures through which early modern women's writing was produced, transmitted, and received. It focuses on the ways it was originally packaged and promoted, how it circulated in its contemporary contexts, and how it was read and received in its original publication and in later revisions and redactions.
Author : Elizabeth R. Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000384764
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture written by Elizabeth R. Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-23 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of Elizabethan diplomacy with an original archival foundation, this book examines the world of letters underlying diplomacy and political administration by exploring a material text never before studied in its own right: the diplomatic letter-book. Author Elizabeth R. Williamson argues that a new focus on the central activity of information gathering allows us to situate diplomacy in its natural context as one of several intertwined areas of crown service, and as one of the several sites of production of political information under Elizabeth I. Close attention to the material features of these letter-books elucidates the environment in which they were produced, copied, and kept, and exposes the shared skills and practices of diplomatic activity, domestic governance, and early modern archiving. This archaeological exploration of epistolary and archival culture establishes a métier of state actor that participates in – even defines – a notably early modern growth in administration and information management. Extending this discussion to our own conditions of access, a new parallel is drawn across two ages of information obsession as Williamson argues that the digital has a natural place in this textual history that we can no longer ignore. This study makes significant contributions to epistolary culture, diplomatic history, and early modern studies more widely, by showing that understanding Elizabethan diplomacy takes us far beyond any single ambassador or agent defined as such: it is a way into an entire administrative landscape and political culture.
