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Zusatztext With its wide-ranging sense of women's agentive roles in this faction, Crawford's monograph significantly extends scholarship on women's relationship to political, social and textual cultures in the early modern period. Informationen zum Autor Julie Crawford is Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published on a wide range of early modern authors, from Shakespeare, Fletcher, and Sidney, to Cavendish, Wroth, and Clifford, and on topics ranging from the history of reading to the history of sexuality. She is the author of a book on cheap print and the English reformation, called Marvelous Protestantism (2005). She is currently completing a book entitled Margaret Cavendish's Political Career Klappentext Mediatrix examines the roles women played as patrons, dedicatees, and readers, as well as writers, in the English Renaissance, and the relationship between these literary activities and religious and political activism. Zusammenfassung Mediatrix examines the roles women played as patrons, dedicatees, and readers, as well as writers, in the English Renaissance, and the relationship between these literary activities and religious and political activism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Female Constancy and The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia 2: How Margaret Hoby Read Her De Mornay 3: 'His Factor for our loves': The Countess of Bedford and John Donne 4: Wroth's Cabinets Conclusion
