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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154987403321

Titolo

Write or be written : early modern women poets and cultural constraints / / edited by Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-87088-2

1-315-23338-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Women and Gender in Early Modern England, 1500-1750

Altri autori (Persone)

AppeltUrsula

SmithBarbara <1949 December 28->

Disciplina

821.009/9287

Soggetti

English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

Women and literature - England - History - 17th century

Feminism and literature - England - History - 17th century

Literature and society - England - History - 17th century

Feminist poetry, English - History and criticism

Sex role in literature

Women in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di contenuto

1. Strategies and contexts -- 2. Poetic conventions and traditions -- 3. Negotiating power and politics -- 4. Writing the female poet.

Sommario/riassunto

Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years, little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the gap, applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to ongoing debates about canonicity, periodicity, disciplinarity, and the construction of knowledge. The essays in this volume reflect today's sophisticated critical thinking, and represent a broad range of approaches and methodologies. Topics covered include contextualizing the self; female discursive strategies; religious discourses and gender; writing a female space; negotiating power and desire; female writing and the



marketplace/publishing; and revisions of male-dominated poetic conventions and traditions.