Reading early modern women's writing [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Salzman

• Autore: Salzman Paul
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/928709031
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-238) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading early modern women's writing
• ISBN: 1-4294-6020-2; 1-280-75914-3; 0-19-153204-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792226003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II