Writing Women in Jacobean England

This text examines the writing of 17th-century English women who took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England, when women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate and silent.

Summary

This text examines the writing of 17th-century English women who took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England, when women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate and silent.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara K. Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.08.1998
• EAN: 9780674962439
• ISBN: 978-0-674-96243-9
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 668 g
• Illustrations: 9 halftones
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies