Representing Women in Renaissance England
Published on 1. June 1997
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-8262-1104-0 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on women as writers and as subjects of Renaissance nondramatic literature, the 15 original essays in this volume share the belief that hierarchically ordered male-female relations influence nearly all aspects of human and social relations, including those that are apparently not gendered at all. Some of the essays participate in the exciting process of recovering and evaluating women writers whose works are only now entering the canon of English literature, while others examine gender issues in male-authored canonical texts. The contributors to "Representing Women in Renaissance England" offer correctives to oversimplified views of women in Renaissance literature, frequently questioning received ideas about patriarchy and about women's responses to their varied positions within a society whose hierarchies were configured according to multiple considerations. In their varied approaches, these essays contribute to a fuller understanding of the representation of women - by both male and female writers - in the Renaissance. They illuminate particular texts and specific writers and call attention to recurrent themes.
Perhaps more fundamentally, however, they reveal the extent to which basic gender issues are at the very heart of Renaissance literature.
Perhaps more fundamentally, however, they reveal the extent to which basic gender issues are at the very heart of Renaissance literature.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Missouri
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8262-1104-0 (9780826211040)
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Content
"My Soule in Silence?" Devotional Representations of Renaissance English-Women, Helen Wilcox; Complications of Intertextuality - John Fisher, Katherine Parr and "The Book of the Crucifix", Janet Mueller; Translating Italian Thought about Women in Elizabethan England - Harington's "Orlando Furioso", Pamela Joseph Benson; Women and Magic in English Renaissance Love Poetry, Gareth Roberts; Women in the Lyric Dialogue of Courtship - Whitney's "Admonition to Al Yong Gentilwomen" and Donne's "The Legacie", Ilona Bell; Donne's Incarnate Muse and his Claim to Poetic Control in "Sapho to Philaenis", Cecilia A. Infante; Witches, King James and "The Masque of Queens", Lawrence Normand; Aemilia Lanyer and the Pathos of Literary History, Judith Scherer Herz; Female Text, Male Reader Response - Contemporary Marginalia in Rachel Speght's "A Mouzell for Malastomas", Barbara K. Lewalski; Deciphering Women's Pastoral - Coded Language in Wroth's "Love's Victory", Josphine A. Roberts; Deference and Defiance - the "Memorandum" of Martha Moulsworth, Robert C. Evans; Richard Crashaw, Mary Collet and the "Arminiam Nunnery" of Little Gidding, Paul A. Parrish; Robert Herrick's Housekeeper - Representing Ordinary Women in Renaissance Poetry, Roger B. Rollin; An Collins and the Experience of Defeat, Sidney Gottlieb; Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn and the Female Pindaric, Stella P. Revard.