Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of
the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to
the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit
of women"s writing in Britain from 1500-1700. Presenting key
textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume
exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women"s
writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering:
how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or
published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in
which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds
of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters,
diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume
readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an
introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues,
and by chronologies that situate women"s writings alongside
political and cultural events.
目錄:
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Chronologies
Introduction: critical framework and issues
LAURA LUNGER KNOPPERS
PART I MATERIAL MATTERS
Women''s handwriting
HEATHER WOLFE
Reading women
EDITH SNOOK
Manuscript miscellanies
VICTORIA E. BURKE
Women, the material book and early printing
MARCY L. NORTH
PART 11 SITES OF PRODUCTION
Women in educational spaces
CAROLINE BOWDEN
Women in the household
WENDY WALL
Women in church and in devotional spaces
ELIZABETH CLARKE
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