Women Writing History in Early Modern England

Klappentext This book investigates and documents fascinating accounts written by seventeenth-century Englishwomen, which explore the shifting relationships between past and future. Zusammenfassung Throughout the seventeenth century! scores of Englishwomen took up the banner of history! exploring in their accounts the shifting relationships between past and future! between what had happened and what could happen. This book focuses on this dynamic exchange! asking us to look seriously at the ends of history. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Strategies for survival: gender, ethics and history; 2. Truth in the telling: moral, method and history in Anne Dowriche's The French Historie; 3. Gendering Catholic conformity: equivocal history and cultural context in Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscelanea; 4. From here to 'henceforth': history, gender and identity in the diary writing of Lady Anne Clifford; 5. Receptive readers: dissimulation and historical truth in Mary Carleton's bigamy trials; 6. The 'dying-tale': history and the ethics of action; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Megan Matchinske, Megan (University of North Carolina Matchinske, Matchinske Megan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2012
• EAN: 9781107406629
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40662-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700