Writing Gender And State In Early Modern England
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Author |
: Michelle M. Dowd |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2016-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317129370 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317129377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England by : Michelle M. Dowd
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.
Author |
: Megan Matchinske |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 1998-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521622547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521622549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England by : Megan Matchinske
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.
Author |
: Megan Matchinske |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2009-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521508674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521508673 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women Writing History in Early Modern England by : Megan Matchinske
This title investigates and documents fascinating accounts written by 17th-century Englishwomen, which explore the shifting relationships between past and future.
Author |
: James Daybell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2017-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351872324 |
ISBN-13 |
: 135187232X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 by : James Daybell
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.
Author |
: Erica Longfellow |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2004-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139456180 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139456180 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women and Religious Writing in Early Modern England by : Erica Longfellow
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.
Author |
: Margo Hendricks |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2013-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135088040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135088047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period by : Margo Hendricks
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.
Author |
: Ian Frederick Moulton |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195137095 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195137094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Before Pornography by : Ian Frederick Moulton
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.
Author |
: Kate Narveson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 393 |
Release |
: 2016-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317174424 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317174429 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England by : Kate Narveson
Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England studies how immersion in the Bible among layfolk gave rise to a non-professional writing culture, one of the first instances of ordinary people taking up the pen as part of their daily lives. Kate Narveson examines the development of the culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender, and the habit of applying Scripture to personal experience. She explores too the tensions that arose between lay and clergy as layfolk embraced not just the chance to read Scripture but the opportunity to create a written record of their ideas and experiences, acquiring a new control over their spiritual self-definition and a new mode of gaining status in domestic and communal circles. Based on a study of print and manuscript sources from 1580 to 1660, this book begins by analyzing how lay people were taught to read Scripture both through explicit clerical instruction in techniques such as note-taking and collation, and through indirect means such as exposure to sermons, and then how they adapted those techniques to create their own devotional writing. The first part of the book concludes with case studies of three ordinary lay people, Anne Venn, Nehemiah Wallington, and Richard Willis. The second half of the study turns to the question of how gender registers in this lay scripturalist writing, offering extended attention to the little-studied meditations of Grace, Lady Mildmay. Narveson concludes by arguing that by mid-century, despite clerical anxiety, writing was central to lay engagement with Scripture and had moved the center of religious experience beyond the church walls.
Author |
: Michelle M. Dowd |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2009-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230620391 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230620396 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Work in Early Modern English Literature and Culture by : Michelle M. Dowd
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.
Author |
: Anthony Fletcher |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1987-06-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 052134932X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521349321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Order and Disorder in Early Modern England by : Anthony Fletcher
This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.