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Women, texts, and histories : 1575-1760
Title
Women, texts, and histories : 1575-1760 / edited by Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss.
ISBN
0203359240
0415053706
1134938942
1134938950
9780203359242
9780415053709
9781134938940
9781134938957
0415053692
0415053706
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 299 pages)
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Summary
The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Women, texts, and histories. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-287) and index.
Contents
Cover
WOMEN, TEXTS AND HISTORIES 1575-1760
CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: MINDING THE STORY
NOTES
1
WHY THE LADY'S EYES ARE NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
NOTES
2
'YET TELL ME SOME SUCH FICTION': LADY MARY WROTH'S URANIA AND THE 'FEMININITY' OF ROMANCE
NOTES
3
MATERIAL GIRLS: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY WOMAN DEBATE
NOTES
4
BLAZING WORLDS: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN'S UTOPIAN WRITING
NOTES
5
'MY BRAIN THE STAGE': MARGARET CAVENDISH AND THE FANTASY OF FEMALE PERFORMANCE
NOTES
6
'THE PERSON I AM, OR WHAT THEY MADE ME TO BE': THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEMININE SUBJECT IN THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF MARY CARLETON
NOTES
7
WHORES' RHETORIC AND THE MAPS OF LOVE: CONSTRUCTING THE FEMININE IN RESTORATION EROTICA
NOTES
8
MANL(E)Y FORMS: SEX AND THE FEMALE SATIRIST
NOTES
9
SPEAKING OF WOMEN: SCANDAL AND THE LAW IN THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
NOTES
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