
Feminism and Renaissance Studies
Lorna Hutson(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 18. November 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
490 pages
978-0-19-878243-8 (ISBN)
Description
Oxford Readings in Feminism
Series Editors: Teresa Brennan and Susan James
Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study.
Collected together by scholars of outstanding reputation in their field, the articles chosen represent the most important work on feminist issues, and concise, lively introductions to each volume crystallize the main lines of debate in the field.
Ever since the publication of Joan Kellys Did Women have a Renaissance? in 1977, feminist historians and critics have been challenging the claims traditionally made for the liberating effects of the intellectual and artistic energies released by the European Renaissance. By analysing the work of gender in the evaluative languages of traditional Renaissance historiography, and by finding strategies for restoring the agency of women to the historical account, feminist scholars have helped to transform the object of Renaissance Studies across a range of disciplines.
This collection brings together classic and more recent essays by feminist scholars in art, music, intellectual and social history, and the literature of the European vernaculars. It offers students and teachers a uniquely accessible introduction to the difference that academic feminism has made to the study of a period often claimed to be foundational to European modernity.
Series Editors: Teresa Brennan and Susan James
Oxford Readings in Feminism provide accessible, one-volume guides to the very best in contemporary feminist thinking, assessing its impact and importance in key areas of study.
Collected together by scholars of outstanding reputation in their field, the articles chosen represent the most important work on feminist issues, and concise, lively introductions to each volume crystallize the main lines of debate in the field.
Ever since the publication of Joan Kellys Did Women have a Renaissance? in 1977, feminist historians and critics have been challenging the claims traditionally made for the liberating effects of the intellectual and artistic energies released by the European Renaissance. By analysing the work of gender in the evaluative languages of traditional Renaissance historiography, and by finding strategies for restoring the agency of women to the historical account, feminist scholars have helped to transform the object of Renaissance Studies across a range of disciplines.
This collection brings together classic and more recent essays by feminist scholars in art, music, intellectual and social history, and the literature of the European vernaculars. It offers students and teachers a uniquely accessible introduction to the difference that academic feminism has made to the study of a period often claimed to be foundational to European modernity.
Reviews / Votes
An extremely useful collection of previously published essays (and one new essay) is available in Feminism and Renaissance Studies.... This is a collection that will expose a newer generation of students to some of the central feminist essays of the last twenty-five years. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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halftones, figures
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
592 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-878243-8 (9780198782438)
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Lorna Hutson
Feminism and Renaissance Studies
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11/1999
Oxford University Press
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Person
Lorna Hutson is Professor of English Literature at the University of Hull. She is the author of Thomas Nashe in Context (1989), and The Userer's Daughter (1994).
Editor
Professor of English LiteratureProfessor of English Literature, University of Hull
Content
I. HUMANISM AFTER FEMINISM ; II. HISTORICIZING FEMININITY ; III. GENDER AND GENRE ; IV. WOMEN'S AGENCY