Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England

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'This is a fascinating piece of scholarship, which like all good books, points to something obvious that we have overlooked. In the extensive work done on voice, little attention has been paid to why male authors (and by extension readers too) in the period were so invested in the female voice. Rather than essentializing the female voice, this book will enable us to read female voices in more fully historicised and politicised terms. Christina Luckyj's deft and detailed analysis brings something genuinely new to our understanding of the key texts, positioning these writers within a culture of (mostly) Biblical reading and interpretation that focusses on politics in the widest sense. It will be a field-defining book.' Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin 'Christina Luckyj's Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England compels readers to revise their assumptions about the female voice as merely interested in domestic forms of conduct and marital conflict. She opens their work to a wider political interest, which is related to that more private but no less political agenda. The personal is political, as we know, and Luckyj brings this home to her readers in new and exciting ways.' Cristina Leon Alfar, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme