During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavalssuch as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period. MIHOKO SUZUKI Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humaniites at the University of Miami, USA. She is the author, most recently, of 'Subordinate Subjects: Gender, the Political Nation, and Literary Form' (2003),and the co-editor of 'Debating Gender in Early Modern England' (2002) and 'Women's Political Writings 1610-1725' (2007). INDICE: List of Figures - Notes on Contributors - Chronology - Introduction; 'M.Suzuki' - PART I: NETWORKS, DEBATES, TRADITIONS, DISCOURSES - Identifying as (Women) Writers;' P.Salzman' - Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women's Poetry; 'M.Matchinske' - All about Eve: Seventeenth Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall; 'S.Miller' - English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism; 'K.Gillespie' - PART II: MODES AND SITES - Seventeenth-Century Women's Manuscript Writing; 'V.Burke' - Reading Seventeenth-Century Women's Letters; 'S.Wiseman' - Women's Self-Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Monuments; 'P.Phillippy' - PART III: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LITERARY GENRES - 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's Indefensible Apologies for Poesy;' C.Kinney - 'Valuing Early Modern Women's Verse in the Twenty-first Century;'P.Hammons' - Early Modern Englishwomen Dramatists (1610-1690): New Perspectives; 'M.Wynne-Davies' - History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century; 'M.Reeves' - PART IV: REVISIONING CONTEXTS - Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Early Modern Marriage in Aphra Behn and MargaretCavendish's Plays; 'T.Jankowski' - 'The Empire of Man over the inferiour Creatures': British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science; 'C.Malcolmson' -Questioning Gender, War, and the 'Old Lie': The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish;' J.Wright' - Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace;' M.Suzuki' - English Women's Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610-90; 'B.Andrea' - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22460-5
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 19/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido