Women and literature in Britain, 1500-1700 [[Book] /]
Women and literature in Britain.
edited by Helen Wilcox.
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- 307 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Humanist education and the Renaissance concept of woman /. Religion and the construction of femininity /. Advice for women from mothers and patriarchs /. Women reading, reading women /. Women/"women" and the stage /. Feminine modes of knowing and scientific enquiry : Margaret Cavendish's poetry as case study /. Renaissance concepts of the "woman writer" /. Courtly writing by women /. Women's poetry in early modern Britain /. Women's writing and the self /. The possibilities of prose /. The first female dramatists /. Hilda L. Smith -- Suzanne Trill -- Valerie Wayne -- Jacqueline Pearson -- Ann Thompson -- Bronwen Price -- Margaret W. Ferguson -- Helen Hackett -- Elizabeth H. Hageman -- Elspeth Graham -- Betty S. Travitsky -- Ros Ballaster.
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English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700 Women and literature--History--Great Britain--16th century. Women and literature--History--Great Britain--17th century. English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.