Tudor and Stuart Women Writers

LOUISE SCHLEINER is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University and author of The Living Lyre in English Verse from Elizabeth through the Restoration and Cultural Semiotics and the Elizabethan Captive Woman.

List of contents

Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I

Women's Household Circles as a Gendered Reading Formation: Whitney, Tyler, and Lanyer

2

Activist Entries into Writing: Lady Elizabeth Hoby/Russell and the Other Cooke Sisters

3

Authorial Identity for a Second-Generation Protestant Aristocrat: The Countess of Pembroke

4

Catholic Squirearchy and Women's Writing: The Countesses of Oxford and Arundel and Elizabeth Weston

5

Parlor Games and Male Self-Imaging as Government: Jonson, Bulstrode, and Ladies Southwell and Worth

6

Factional Identities and Writers' Energies: Wroth, the Countess of Bedford, and Donne

7

Popery and Politics: Lady Falkland's Return to Writing

Epilogue: Theoretical Perspectives

Appendices

Notes

Works Cited or Consulted

Index

About the author

Louise Schleiner

Summary

Examines Tudor and Stuart women writers and their culture from the perspectives of feminism, Marxism, sociology, and cultural semiotics. This book analyzes how these women circumvented the many obstacles against their entry into writing and public discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Schleiner, Schleiner Louise
• Assisted by: Sandra Gilbert (Editor), Sandra M Gilbert (Editor), Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor), Susan Gubar (Editor), With Translations from Latin by Connie M (Editor), Connie Mcquillen (Translation), Lynn E. Roller (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.1994
• EAN: 9780253208866
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20886-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 232 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Series: Women of Letters; Women of Letters
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories