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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... social circumstances of these women vary widely : the contours of the female literary community are complex , its highways and byways laby- rinthine and often unfamiliar . Thus each volume in this series will pay close attention to what ...
... various kinds of libidinally invested writing , utterance , and other cultural production comprised a social text for early modern Englishwomen , in their own positions within it . For example , in xvi Introduction I.
... social materials did they build or find a support system for their self - imaging , in order to be able to speak ? I found , in studying the several women here treated , that the answer varies depending on the circumstances , social ...
... social classes lived in daily association , reading and often making music together . Therein lies a gynocritical tale ( see Showalter " Poetics " ) — not a dia- chronic but a synchronic one . For this " reading formation " of women's ...
... social spectrum , should come as no surprise . To speak just of romance — one important component of its materials — the place of romance in that formation makes its constitution as a genre contrast markedly with that of romance in an ...
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Lady Elizabeth HobyRussell | 30 |
The Countesses | 82 |
Wroth the Countess | 150 |
Theoretical Perspectives | 192 |
Works Cited or Consulted | 274 |