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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159386503321

Autore

van Elk Martine

Titolo

Early Modern Women's Writing : Domesticity, Privacy, and the Public Sphere in England and the Dutch Republic / / by Martine van Elk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-33222-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv,  299 pages 16 illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour.)

Collana

Early Modern Literature in History, , 2634-5919

Disciplina

820.93522

Soggetti

Literature, Modern

European literature

British literature

Europe—History—1492-

Early Modern/Renaissance Literature

European Literature

British and Irish Literature

History of Early Modern Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Women, Literacy, and Domesticity in the Public Imagination -- 3. Muses and Patrons: Mary Sidney Herbert and Anna Roemers Visscher -- 4. Friends, Lovers, and Rivals: Katharina Lescailje, Cornelia van der Veer, and Katherine Philips -- 5. Education and Reputation: Anna Maria van Schurman and Margaret Cavendish -- 6. Staging Female Virtue: Elizabeth Cary and Katharina Lescailje -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.-.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly imagined as properly confined to the household by the end of the century. This book compares how English



and Dutch women responded to these changes. It discusses praise of women, marriage manuals, and attitudes to female literacy, along with female artistic and literary expressions in the form of painting, engraving, embroidery, print, drama, poetry, and prose, to offer a rich account of women’s contributions to debates on issues that mattered most to them. .