Tudor and Stuart Women WritersIndiana University Press, 22. 11. 1994 - Počet stran: 320 "... a nuanced, carefully argued work that reveals how women writers of the Renaissance, whether upper-class aristocrats close to court, daughters of successful merchants, Protestants, or Catholics, are inevitably affected by the gender biases that infuse all levels of Renaissance society and letters." -- Sixteenth Century Journal "... quite effective at developing a critical vocabulary for analyzing the formal traits of early modern women's writing." -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature From the perspectives of feminism, Marxism, sociology, and cultural semiotics, Louise Schleiner examines both familiar and obscure Tudor and Stuart women writers in a comprehensive study of those women who managed to go beyond translations or diaries and find a more individual voice in their public texts. |
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... scholars begun " to excavate and dig " in a general effort to recover the lives and works of forgotten or neglected " women worthy of praise . " Mary Wroth , Mary Astell , ix Foreword by Sandra M Gilbert and Susan Gubar.
... lives and works of , in Christine's words , " ladies from the past as well as from the present and future . " Such a project can by its nature come to no definitive conclusion , offer no single last word , because the City of Ladies ...
... lives only faintly traced , their voices barely audible — or in some cases only a recitation of prescribed verbal forms . In the records for the parish of Waterbeach near Cambridge are dozens of certifications that peni- tential decrees ...
... organizational assumption about the theoretical concepts at work in this study has been that readers may prefer to learn about them as we go along considering women's writings and lives , rather than to read XX Introduction.
Louise Schleiner. considering women's writings and lives , rather than to read an extended theo- retical presentation here at the start . A brief epilogue pulls together the theo- retical concepts and makes some of their connections ...
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Lady Elizabeth HobyRussell | 30 |
The Countesses | 82 |
Wroth the Countess | 150 |
Theoretical Perspectives | 192 |
Works Cited or Consulted | 274 |