Early Modern Women's Writing : An Anthology 1560-1700
Paul. Salzman
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : : Oxford University Press, UK, , 2000.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (788 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Copyright Page; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the Texts; Bibliography; Chronology; Isabella Whitney (fl. 1567-1578); Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645); Anne Clifford (1590-1676); Mary Wroth (c. 1587-c.l653); Eleanor Davies (1590-1652); Priscilla Cotton and Mary Cole (fl. 1650S/1660S); Hester Biddle (c.1629-1696); Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673); Dorothy Osborne (1627-1695); Katherine Philips (1632-1664); Aphra Behn (c.1640-1689); Explanatory Notes; Textual Notes; Footnotes. - In a famous passage in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf asked 'why women did not write poetry in the Elizabethan age'. She went on to speculate about an imaginary Judith Shakespeare who might have been destined for a career as illustrious as that of her brother William, except that she had none of his chances. The truth is that many women wrote during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and this collection will serve to introduce modern readers to the full variety of women's writing in this period - from poems, prose and fiction to prophecies, letters, tracts and philosophy. Here are ex
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| Dewey | 820.809287 . - 820.8
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| ISBN | 0192833464
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