Writing Gender And State In Early Modern England

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Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England

Author : Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317129377
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England by : Michelle M. Dowd

Download or read book Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England written by Michelle M. Dowd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.

Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England

Author : Megan Matchinske
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521622549
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England by : Megan Matchinske

Download or read book Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England written by Megan Matchinske and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated sense of identity, to Civil War perceptions of the self as inscribed by the state and inflected according to gender, a site of civil and sexual invigilation and control. Each centres on the work of an early modern woman writer in the act of self-definition and authorization, in relation to external powers such as the Church and the monarchy. Megan Matchinske's study illustrates the evolving relationships between public and private selves and the increasing role of gender in determining different identities for men and women. The conjunction of gender and statehood in Matchinske's analysis represents an original contribution to the study of early modern identity.

Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England

Author : Erica Longfellow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139456180
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England by : Erica Longfellow

Download or read book Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England written by Erica Longfellow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study challenges critical assumptions about the role of religion in shaping women's experiences of authorship. Feminist critics have frequently been uncomfortable with the fact that conservative religious beliefs created opportunities for women to write with independent agency. The seventeenth-century Protestant women discussed in this book range across the religio-political and social spectrums and yet all display an affinity with modern feminist theologians. Rather than being victims of a patriarchal gender ideology, Lady Anne Southwell, Anna Trapnel and Lucy Hutchinson, among others, were both active negotiators of gender and active participants in wider theological debates. By placing women's religious writing in a broad theological and socio-political context, Erica Longfellow challenges traditional critical assumptions about the role of gender in shaping religion and politics and the role of women in defining gender and thus influencing religion and politics.

Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700

Author : James Daybell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135187232X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 by : James Daybell

Download or read book Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 written by James Daybell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as petitioners, intermediaries and patrons. It challenges conventional conceptualizations of female power and influence, defining 'politics' broadly in order to incorporate women excluded from formal, male-dominated state institutions. The chapters embrace a range of interdisciplinary approaches: historical, literary, palaeographic, linguistic and gender based. They deal with a variety of issues related to female intervention within political spheres, including women's rhetorical, persuasive and communicative skills; the production by women of a range of texts that can be termed 'political'; the politicization of marital, family and kinship networks; and female involvement in patronage and court politics. Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-700 also looks at ways in which images of female power and authority were represented within canonical texts, such as Shakespeare's plays and Milton's epic poetry. The volume extends the range of areas and texts for the study of women, gender and politics, and locates women's political, social and cultural activities within the contexts of the family, locality and wider national stage. It argues for a blurring of the boundaries between the traditional categories of the 'public' and the 'private,' the 'domestic' and the 'political'; and enhances our understanding of the ways in which women exerted political force through informal, intimate and personal, as well as more official, and formal channels of power. As a whole the book makes an important contribution to the reassessment of early modern politics from the perspective of women.

Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period

Author : Margo Hendricks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135088047
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period by : Margo Hendricks

Download or read book Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period written by Margo Hendricks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period is an extraordinarily comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of one of the most neglected areas in current scholarship. The contributors use literary, historical, anthropological and medical materials to explore an important intersection within the major era of European imperial expansion. The volume looks at: * the conditions of women's writing and the problems of female authorship in the period. * the tensions between recent feminist criticism and the questions of `race', empire and colonialism. *the relationship between the early modern period and post-colonial theory and recent African writing. Women, `Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period contains ground-breaking work by some of the most exciting scholars in contemporary criticism and theory. It will be vital reading for anyone working or studying in the field.

Before Pornography

Author : Ian Frederick Moulton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195137094
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Before Pornography written by Ian Frederick Moulton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon: while the representation of sexual activity exists in nearly all cultures, pornography does not. The book includes analyses of the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as Sidney's Defense of Poesy and Spenser's Faerie Queene.

Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Author : Michelle M. Dowd
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620396
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by : Michelle M. Dowd

Download or read book Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture written by Michelle M. Dowd and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dowd investigates literature's engagement with the gendered conflicts of early modern England by examining the narratives that seventeenth-century dramatists created to describe the lives of working women.

Order and Disorder in Early Modern England

Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521349321
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Order and Disorder in Early Modern England written by Anthony Fletcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-06-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.

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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Book Synopsis Reading Material in Early Modern England by : Heidi Brayman Hackel

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.

Writing the Forest in Early Modern England

Author : Jeffrey S. Theis
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820704234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing the Forest in Early Modern England by : Jeffrey S. Theis

Download or read book Writing the Forest in Early Modern England written by Jeffrey S. Theis and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by publisher.

Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition

Author : Hilda L. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585095
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (85 download)

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Book Synopsis Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition by : Hilda L. Smith

Download or read book Women Writers and the Early Modern British Political Tradition written by Hilda L. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-26 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays includes studies of women's political writings from Christine de Pizan to Mary Wollstonecraft and explores in depth the political ideas of the writers in their historical and intellectual context. The volume illuminates the limitations placed on women's political writings and their broader political role by the social and scholarly institutions of early modern Europe. In so doing, the authors probe legal and political restraints, distinct national and state organisation, and assumptions concerning women's proper intellectual interests. In this endeavour, the volume explores questions and subjects traditionally ignored by historians of political thought and little considered even by current feminist theorists, groups who give slight attention to women's political ideas or place women's writings within the social and intellectual structures from which they emerged and which they helped to shape.

Early Modern Women's Writing

Author : Martine van Elk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319332228
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Women's Writing written by Martine van Elk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly imagined as properly confined to the household by the end of the century. This book compares how English and Dutch women responded to these changes. It discusses praise of women, marriage manuals, and attitudes to female literacy, along with female artistic and literary expressions in the form of painting, engraving, embroidery, print, drama, poetry, and prose, to offer a rich account of women’s contributions to debates on issues that mattered most to them.

Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137531169
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England by : Susan Broomhall

Download or read book Authority, Gender and Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern England written by Susan Broomhall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.

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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Book Synopsis Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England by : Valerie Wayne

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.

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.

Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters

Author : Julie D. Campbell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754667384
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (673 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters by : Julie D. Campbell

Download or read book Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters written by Julie D. Campbell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities.

Dido's Daughters

Author : Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226243184
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Dido's Daughters written by Margaret W. Ferguson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of literacy toward more vernacular forms of speech and writing. Fegurson's aim in this long-awaited work is twofold: to show that what counted as more valuable among these competing literacies had much to do with notions of gender, and to demonstrate how debates about female literacy were critical to the emergence of imperial nations. Looking at writers whom she dubs the figurative daughters of the mythological figure Dido—builder of an empire that threatened to rival Rome—Ferguson traces debates about literacy and empire in the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cary, and Aphra Behn, as well as male writers such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Wyatt. The result is a study that sheds new light on the crucial roles that gender and women played in the modernization of England and France.