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Tudor and Stuart women writers

Louise Schleiner (Author), Connie McQuillen (Translator), Lynn E. Roller (Translator)
Examines Tudor and Stuart women writers and their culture from the perspectives of feminism, Marxism, sociology, and cultural semiotics. This book analyzes how these women circumvented the many obstacles against their entry into writing and public discourse.
Print Book, English, ©1994
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, ©1994
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780253350985, 9780253208866, 9780585028200, 0253350980, 0253208866, 0585028206
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Women's household circles as a gendered reading formation: Whitney, Tyler, and Lanyer
Activist entries in writing: Lady Elizabeth Hoby / Russell and the other Cooke sisters
Authorial identity for a second-generation Protestant aristocrat: The Countess of Pembroke
Catholic squirearchy and women's writing: the Countesses of Oxford and Arundel and Elizabeth Weston
Parlor games and male self-imaging as government: Jonson, Bulstrode and Ladies Southwell and Wroth
Factional identities and writers' energies: Wroth, the Countess of Bedofred, and Donne
Popery and politics: Lady Falkland's return to writing