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Informationen zum Autor Anita Pacheco is a Lecturer in the English Department at the Open University. She has written extensively on Aphra Behn and early modern drama and is the author of Shakespeare's Coriolanus (2007) in the Writers and their Work series. She is the editor of Early Women Writers 1600-1720 (1998) and joint editor (with John Stachniewski) of John Bunyan: Grace Abounding with Other Spiritual Autobiographies (1998). Klappentext This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. It brings together new work by twenty-four of the best contemporary scholars who are pushing forward the boundaries of scholarship on early modern women's writing from both sides of the Atlantic. The contributions balance a specific focus on individual texts with a broader examination of the relevant social and cultural contexts of early modern women's writing, its generic diversity and some of the main theoretical questions that underpin its study. Ten key texts are considered, along with the major genres in which early modern women wrote and the theoretical issues to which their work gives rise. The volume provides readers with a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to literary culture in early modern Britain. It will be welcomed by all those who teach courses on women writers and early modern women writers, and by those who wish to integrate more women writers into their Renaissance courses. Zusammenfassung This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive! student--oriented guides to the under--published field of early modern womena s writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors x Introduction xiv PART ONE Contexts 1 1 Women and Education 3 Kenneth Charlton 2 Religion and the Construction of the Feminine 22 Diane Willen 3 Women, Property and Law 40 Tim Stretton 4 Women and Work 58 Sara H. Mendelson 5 Women and Writing 77 Margaret J. M. Ezell PART TWO Readings 95 6 Isabella Whitney, A Sweet Nosegay 97 Patricia Brace 7 Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, Psalmes 110 Debra K. Rienstra 8 Aemilia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum 125 Susanne Woods 9 Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam and History 136 Elaine Beilin 10 Mary Wroth, The Countess of Montgomery's Urania 150 Naomi J. Miller 11 Margaret Cavendish, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life 165 Gweno Williams 12 Anna Trapnel, Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea 177 Hilary Hinds 13 Katherine Philips, Poems 189 Elizabeth H. Hageman 14 Aphra Behn, The Rover, Part One 203 Anita Pacheco 15 Mary Astell, Critic of the Marriage Contract/Social Contract Analogue 216 Patricia Springborg PART THREE Genres 229 16 Autobiography 231 Sheila Ottway 17 Defences of Women 248 Frances Teague and Rebecca De Haas 18 Prophecy 264 Elaine Hobby 19 Women's Poetry 1550-1700: 'Not Unfit to be Read' 282 Bronwen Price 20 Prose Fiction 303 Paul Salzman 21 Drama 317 Sophie Tomlinson PART FOUR Issues and Debates 337 22 The Work of Women in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: The Canon, Early Modern Women Writers and the Postmodern Reader 339 Melinda Alliker Rabb 23 Feminist Historiography 361 Margo Hendricks Index 377 ...
