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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Walker, Kim. Women writers of the English renaissance. New York : Twayne Publishers, c1996 (OCoLC)604547365 |
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| Named Person: | Mary Sidney Herbert Pembroke, Countess of; Elizabeth Cary, Lady; Mary Wroth, Lady; Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland.; Mary Wroth, Lady |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kim Walker |
| ISBN: | 0805770178 9780805770179 |
| OCLC Number: | 34471353 |
| Description: | xv, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Wise virgins : authority and authorship -- "Busie in my clositt" : letters, diaries, and autobiographical writing -- Negotiating a place in "eruditions garden" -- "Some inspired stile" : Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke -- "This worke of grace" : Elizabeth Middleton, Alice Sutcliffe, Rachel Speght, and Aemelia Lanyer -- "By publike language grac't" : Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland -- "To beg their fees" : the emergence of the professional woman writer -- "This strang labourinth" : Lady Mary Wroth -- "The lasting lampe." |
| Series Title: | Twayne's English authors series, TEAS 521. |
| Responsibility: | Kim Walker. |
Abstract:
Did women have a Renaissance? Over the last decade much of the most eminent and significant scholarship in Renaissance studies has attempted to answer this question. Kim Walker's Women Writers of the English Renaissance takes a commanding lead among the responses. In a careful, current, and wide-ranging survey of Renaissance women writers, Walker examines the social, educational, economic, and ideological constraints under which women wrote; their attempts to move from the margin to the center of literary production; and their establishment of careers as professional writers. Both major and minor writers - poets, diarists, letter writers, romance writers, playwrights, and biographers - are discussed here in revealing, reliable, and provocative ways. Major writers including Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, and Mary Wroth are presented in a new, more broad perspective.
Walker's synthesis of cultural history and literary criticism makes this volume a significant accomplishment that should be read by every scholar and student of the culture and literature of Tudor and Stuart England.
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Related Subjects:(20)
- English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Pembroke, Mary Sidney Herbert, -- Countess of, -- 1561-1621 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Cary, Elizabeth, -- Lady, -- 1585 or 1586-1639 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Wroth, Mary, -- Lady, -- approximately 1586-approximately 1640 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century.
- Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Renaissance -- England.
- Cary, Elizabeth, -- Viscountess Falkland.
- Wroth, Mary, -- Lady, -- ca.1586-ca.1640.
- English literature -- By -- Women -- History
- Vrouwelijke auteurs.
- Engels.
- Schriftstellerin
- Geschichte 1560-1640.
- Frauenliteratur
- Renaissance
- Großbritannien
- Englisch
- England
