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UNINA9910820708603321 |
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Autore |
Salzman Paul |
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Titolo |
Reading early modern women's writing / / Paul Salzman |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-4294-6020-2 |
1-280-75914-3 |
0-19-153204-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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810.9/928709031 |
820.9928709032 |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 16th century |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 17th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The scope of early modern women's writing -- Poets high and low, visible and invisible -- Mary Wroth : from obscurity to canonization -- Anne Clifford : writing a family identity -- Prophets and visionaries -- Margaret Cavendish and Lucy Hutchinson : authorship and ownership -- Saint and sinner : Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Most people, even within the area of English literature, are unaware of how much writing women produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book offer a clear, coherent outline of that writing, and also looks at how it was read and reproduced through succeeding centuries down to the present day. - ;This book contains the first comprehensive account of writing by women from the mid sixteenth century through to 1700. At the same time, it traces the way a representative sample of that writing was published, circulated in manuscript, read, anthologised, reprinted, and discussed from t |
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