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This encyclopedia on early modern women s writing from the English Reformation to the Restoration focuses on writing by or attributed to women, written in or translated into English, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Europe, and the Americas. It is designed to provide coverage of six established chronological periods: - Early Tudor (1526-1557), Elizabethan (1558-1603), Jacobean (1603-1625), Caroline (1625-1649), English Civil War & Interregnum (1642-1660), and Restoration (1660-1688). With over 400 entries, the encyclopedia is organised through broad theoretical, material, generic, and thematic categories, as well as by period.
List of contents
Genres: Prose.- Genres: Poetry.- Genres: Poetry.- Materialities: Manuscript.- Period: Jacobean.- Period: English Civil War and Interregnum.- Period: Restoration.- Transmission.- The Material Book: Materialities.- Period: Early Tudor (1526-1557).- International Contexts: National Traditions and Transnational Networks.- Period: Elizabethan (1558-1603).- Materialities: Print.- Theories: Position and Debates.- Sites of Production.- Period: Caroline.- Cultural Contexts.
About the author
Patricia Pender is Associate Professor in English and Writing at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Early Modern Women’s Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Palgrave, 2012), co-editor, with Rosalind Smith, of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014) and editor of Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration (Palgrave, 2017)
Rosalind Smith is Chair of English and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the Australian National University. She is the author of Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence (Palgrave, 2005) and the co-editor of Material Cultures of Early Modern Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2014) and Early Modern Women’s Complaint: Gender, Form, and Politics (Palgrave, 2020). In 2008, Smith and Pender founded the Early Modern Women's Research Network (EMWRN) at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Summary
This encyclopedia on early modern women’s writing from the English Reformation to the Restoration focuses on writing by or attributed to women, written in or translated into English, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Europe, and the Americas. It is designed to provide coverage of six established chronological periods: - Early Tudor (1526-1557), Elizabethan (1558-1603), Jacobean (1603-1625), Caroline (1625-1649), English Civil War & Interregnum (1642-1660), and Restoration (1660-1688). With over 400 entries, the encyclopedia is organised through broad theoretical, material, generic, and thematic categories, as well as by period.
