Tudor and Stuart Women WritersIndiana University Press, 22 nov. 1994 - 320 pages "... a nuanced, carefully argued work that reveals how women writers of the Renaissance, whether upper-class aristocrats close to court, daughters of successful merchants, Protestants, or Catholics, are inevitably affected by the gender biases that infuse all levels of Renaissance society and letters." -- Sixteenth Century Journal "... quite effective at developing a critical vocabulary for analyzing the formal traits of early modern women's writing." -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature From the perspectives of feminism, Marxism, sociology, and cultural semiotics, Louise Schleiner examines both familiar and obscure Tudor and Stuart women writers in a comprehensive study of those women who managed to go beyond translations or diaries and find a more individual voice in their public texts. |
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... speaking , the City of which Christine dreamed . Yet despite the optimism of this Renaissance woman's vision , most of its walls and towers dis- appeared from view for centuries . Even when its individual inhabitants gained recognition ...
... speak in public , they might also , by direct inversion of the mean- ing of female public speech , be ordered to do so , for shame . The records show men at times also doing such penances , for sins like " en- tertaining evil company at ...
... speak to a small group or claim a textual space intended for some more - than - private audience ? What tasks of self - imaging did they face — out of what social materials did they build or find a support system for their self ...
... speaking ? Did their own variantly gendered self- concepts play into their work as writers , constrained as it was by ... speak " ( 149 ) . And with Margaret Ezell , we can look for ways to study their writing that do not stay within dia ...
... speak just of romance — one important component of its materials — the place of romance in that formation makes its constitution as a genre contrast markedly with that of romance in an Anglophone women's reading formation of our own ...
Table des matières
Lady Elizabeth HobyRussell | 30 |
The Countesses | 82 |
Wroth the Countess | 150 |
Theoretical Perspectives | 192 |
Works Cited or Consulted | 274 |