Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England
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Agnes Beaumont
Anne Halkett
Artist's Model
Artist’s Model
autobiographical narrative
Blazing World
Bolsover Castle
Book III
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Catherine Field
Cavendish's Writing
Cavendish’s Writing
Clifford's Diary
Clifford’s Diary
early modern England women
Early Modern Englishwomen
Early Modern Life Writings
Early Modern Woman Writes
Early Modern Women
Early Modern Women's Life
Early Modern Women's Manuscript
Early Modern Women’s Life
Early Modern Women’s Manuscript
Elizabeth Freke
Elspeth Graham
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female self-representation in literature
gendered identity
Helen Wilcox
historical formalism
Josephine Donovan
Julie A. Eckerle
Lady Anne Halkett
Lara Dodds
Life Writing
manuscript culture
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish's Writing
Margaret J.M. Ezell
Martha Moulsworth
Mary Ellen Lamb
Megan Matchinske
Receipt Book
rhetorical strategies
Richardson's Legacie
Richardson’s Legacie
William Cavendish
Women's Life Writings
Women's Manuscript
Women’s Manuscript
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- ISBN 9781138264922
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.
Michelle M. Dowd is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA. Julie A. Eckerle is Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA
