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Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England

Author : EDITH. SNOOK
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138383753
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (837 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England by : EDITH. SNOOK

Download or read book Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England written by EDITH. SNOOK and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in women's printed devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, and fiction, as well as manuscripts, for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Among the authors and texts considered are Katherine Parr, Lamentation of a Sinner; Anne Askew, The Examinations of Anne Askew; Dorothy Leigh, The Mothers Blessing; Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives; Aemelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; and Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania. Attentive to contiguities between representations of reading in print and reading practices found in manuscript culture, this book also examines a commonplace book belonging to Anne Cornwallis (Folger Folger MS V.a.89) and a Passion poem presented by Elizabeth Middleton to Sarah Edmondes (Bod. MS Don. e.17). Edith Snook here makes an original contribution to the ongoing scholarly project of historicizing reading by foregrounding female writers of the early modern period. She explores how women's representations of reading negotiate the dynamic relationship between the public and private spheres and investigates how women might have been affected by changing ideas about literacy, as well as how they sought to effect change in devotional and literary reading practices. Finally, because the activity of reading is a site of cultural conflict - over gender, social and educational status, and the religious or national affiliation of readers - Snook brings to light how these women, when they write about reading, are engaged in structuring the cultural politics of early modern England.

Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England

Author : Edith Snook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351871498
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England by : Edith Snook

Download or read book Women, Reading, and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England written by Edith Snook and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the representation of reading in early modern Englishwomen's writing, this book exists at the intersection of textual criticism and cultural history. It looks at depictions of reading in devotional works, maternal advice books, poetry, fiction, and manuscripts for evidence of ways in which women conceived of reading in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. Among the texts considered are Katherine Parr, Lamentation of a Sinner; Anne Askew, The Examinations of Anne Askew; Dorothy Leigh, The Mothers Blessing; Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives; Anne Cornwallis's commonplace book (Folger MS V.a.89); Aemelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum; The Death and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Bodleian MS Don.e.17), and Mary Wroth, The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania.

Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England

Author : Edith Snook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230302238
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England written by Edith Snook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England

Author : Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754651550
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England by : Liz Oakley-Brown

Download or read book Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England written by Liz Oakley-Brown and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eig

Reading Material in Early Modern England

Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521842518
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Reading Material in Early Modern England written by Heidi Brayman Hackel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history.

Women and the Bible in Early Modern England

Author : Femke Molekamp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199665400
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and the Bible in Early Modern England by : Femke Molekamp

Download or read book Women and the Bible in Early Modern England written by Femke Molekamp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of English women's religious reading and writing in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700

Author : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192604732
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 by : Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 written by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figures in early modern women's writing to those early in their careers and defining the field now. It investigates how and where women gained access to education, how they developed their literary voice through varied genres including poetry, drama, and letters, and how women cultivated domestic and technical forms of knowledge from recipes and needlework to medicines and secret codes. Chapters investigate the ways in which women's writing was an integral part of the intellectual culture of the period, engaging with male writers and traditions, while also revealing the ways in which women's lives and writings were often distinctly different, from women prophetesses to queens, widows, and servants. It explores the intersections of women writing in English with those writing in French, Spanish, Latin, and Greek, in Europe and in New England, and argues for an archipelagic understanding of women's writing in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England. Finally, it reflects on—and challenges—the methodologies which have developed in, and with, the field: book and manuscript history, editing, digital analysis, premodern critical race studies, network theory, queer theory, and feminist theory. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 captures the most innovative work on early modern women's writing in English at present.

Reading Children in Early Modern Culture

Author : Edel Lamb
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319703595
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Reading Children in Early Modern Culture written by Edel Lamb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together the fields of childhood studies, early modern literature and the history of reading. Analysing literary representations of children as readers in a range of genres (including ABCs, prayer books, religious narratives, romance, anthologies, school books, drama, translations and autobiography) alongside evidence of the reading experiences of those defined as children in the period, it explores the production of different categories of child readers. Focusing on the ‘good child’ reader, the youth as consumer, ways of reading as a boy and as a girl, and the retrospective recollection of childhood reading, it sheds new light on the ways in which childhood and reading were understood and experienced in the period.

Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England

Author : Susan Dwyer Amussen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719046957
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England by : Susan Dwyer Amussen

Download or read book Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England written by Susan Dwyer Amussen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the work of major scholars on both sides of the Atlantic this volume seeks to explore the interconnections between popular culture and political activism at both the local and central levels. Strongly influenced by the work of David Underdown, the contributions range across a spectrum of social and political history from witchcraft to the aristocracy, from forest riots to battles of the civil war. The volume combines chapters from historians of gender, of political theory, of social structure, and of high politics. Within this diversity, the contributors offer a cohesive approach to the study of early modern England, encouraging the exploration of mentalities and political activities, as well as artistic rendering, writing and ceremony within the widest context of cultural politics.

Material Cultures of Early Modern Women's Writing

Author : P. Pender
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137342439
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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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 2015-12-04 with total page 230 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.

Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Britain

Author : Sarah C. E. Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198724209
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Britain by : Sarah C. E. Ross

Download or read book Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Britain written by Sarah C. E. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain offers a new account of women's engagement in the poetic and political cultures of seventeenth-century England and Scotland, based on poetry that was produced and circulated in manuscript. Katherine Philips is often regarded as the first in a cluster of women writers, including Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, who were political, secular, literary, print-published, and renowned. Sarah C. E. Ross explores a new corpus of political poetry by women, offering detailed readings of Elizabeth Melville, Anne Southwell, Jane Cavendish, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson, and making the compelling case that female political poetics emerge out of social and religious poetic modes and out of manuscript-based authorial practices. Situating each writer in her political and intellectual contexts, from early covenanting Scotland to Restoration England, this volume explores women's political articulation in the devotional lyric, biblical verse paraphrase, occasional verse, elegy, and emblem. For women, excluded from the public-political sphere, these rhetorically-modest genres and the figural language of poetry offered vital modes of political expression; and women of diverse affiliations use religious and social poetics, the tropes of family and household, and the genres of occasionality that proliferated in manuscript culture to imagine the state. Attending also to the transmission and reception of women's poetry in networks of varying reach, Sarah C. E. Ross reveals continuities and evolutions in women's relationship to politics and poetry, and identifies a female tradition of politicised poetry in manuscript spanning the decades before, during, and after the Civil Wars.

Things of Darkness

Author : Kim F. Hall
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725459
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Things of Darkness written by Kim F. Hall and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Ethiope," the "tawny Tartar," the "woman blackamoore," and "knotty Africanisms"—allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance texts. Kim F. Hall's eagerly awaited book is the first to view these evocations of blackness in the contexts of sexual politics, imperialism, and slavery in early modern England. Her work reveals the vital link between England's expansion into realms of difference and otherness—through exploration and colonialism-and the highly charged ideas of race and gender which emerged. How, Hall asks, did new connections between race and gender figure in Renaissance ideas about the proper roles of men and women? What effect did real racial and cultural difference have on the literary portrayal of blackness? And how did the interrelationship of tropes of race and gender contribute to a modern conception of individual identity? Hall mines a wealth of sources for answers to these questions: travel literature from Sir John Mandeville's Travels to Leo Africanus's History and Description of Africa; lyric poetry and plays, from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and The Tempest to Ben Jonson's Masque of Blackness; works by Emilia Lanyer, Philip Sidney, John Webster, and Lady Mary Wroth; and the visual and decorative arts. Concentrating on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hall shows how race, sexuality, economics, and nationalism contributed to the formation of a modern ( white, male) identity in English culture. The volume includes a useful appendix of not readily accessible Renaissance poems on blackness.

A History of Early Modern Women's Literature

Author : Patricia Phillippy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107137063
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A History of Early Modern Women's Literature written by Patricia Phillippy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration.

Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain

Author : Leah Knight
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131095
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain written by Leah Knight and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in 16th- and 17th-century Britain read, annotated, circulated, inventoried, cherished, criticized, prescribed, and proscribed books in various historically distinctive ways. Yet, unlike that of their male counterparts, the study of women’s reading practices and book ownership has been an elusive and largely overlooked field. In thirteen probing essays, Women’s Bookscapesin Early Modern Britain brings together the work of internationally renowned scholars investigating key questions about early modern British women’s figurative, material, and cultural relationships with books. What constitutes evidence of women’s readerly engagement? How did women use books to achieve personal, political, religious, literary, economic, social, familial, or communal goals? How does new evidence of women’s libraries and book usage challenge received ideas about gender in relation to knowledge, education, confessional affiliations, family ties, and sociability? How do digital tools offer new possibilities for the recovery of information on early modern women readers? The volume’s three-part structure highlights case studies of individual readers and their libraries; analyses of readers and readership in the context of their interpretive communities; and new types of scholarly evidence—lists of confiscated books and convent rules, for example—as well as new methodologies and technologies for ongoing research. These essays dismantle binaries of private and public; reading and writing; female and male literary engagement and production; and ownership and authorship. Interdisciplinary, timely, cohesive, and concise, this collection’s fresh, revisionary approaches represent substantial contributions to scholarship in early modern material culture; book history and print culture; women’s literary and cultural history; library studies; and reading and collecting practices more generally.

English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625

Author : Micheline White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131714290X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 written by Micheline White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing to the growing interest in early modern women and religion, this essay collection advances scholarship by introducing readers to recently recovered or little-studied texts and by offering new paradigms for the analysis of women's religious literary activities. Contributors underscore the fact that women had complex, multi-dimensional relationships to the religio-political order, acting as activists for specific causes but also departing from confessional norms in creative ways and engaging in intra-as well as extra-confessional conflict. The volume thus includes essays that reflect on the complex dynamics of religious culture itself and that illuminate the importance of women's engagement with Catholicism throughout the period. The collection also highlights the vitality of neglected intertextual genres such as prayers, meditations, and translations, and it focuses attention on diverse forms of textual production such as literary writing, patronage, epistolary exchanges, public reading, and epitaphs. Collectively, English Women, Religion, and Textual Production, 1500-1625 offers a comprehensive treatment of the historical, literary, and methodological issues preoccupying scholars of women and religious writing.

Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England

Author : Valerie Wayne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350110027
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England written by Valerie Wayne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reveals the valuable work that women achieved in publishing, printing, writing and reading early modern English books, from those who worked in the book trade to those who composed, selected, collected and annotated books. Women gathered rags for paper production, invested in books and oversaw the presses that printed them. Their writing and reading had an impact on their contemporaries and the developing literary canon. A focus on women's work enables these essays to recognize the various forms of labour -- textual and social as well as material and commercial -- that women of different social classes engaged in. Those considered include the very poor, the middling sort who were active in the book trade, and the elite women authors and readers who participated in literary communities. Taken together, these essays convey the impressive work that women accomplished and their frequent collaborations with others in the making, marking, and marketing of early modern English books.

Writing Habits

Author : Jaime Goodrich
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817321039
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Writing Habits written by Jaime Goodrich and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An in-depth examination of a significant, but marginalized, body of literature: the texts produced in English Benedictine convents on the Continent between 1600 and 1800"--