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early modern women writers
English verse tradition
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gendered poetic expression in Renaissance
historical female authorship
literary agency
motherhood in literature
poetic form analysis
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- ISBN 9780415923507
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although women of the Renaissance were expected to be chaste, silent and obedient, many women poets risked the disapproval of their own society and transcended the strictures of contemporary female behavior in words that still resonate today. Their meditations on the danger and sufferings of motherhood and their descriptions of the vagaries of love, while couched in the formal style of Renaissance poetry, often appear startlingly close to modern experience. As a consequence, the range of poetry produced by Renaissance women is remarkably broad. In Women Poets of the Renaissance the poetry of these women is collected for the first time in an anthology that offers the twentieth-century reader a fresh and unique approach to literature of the period.
Marion Wynne-Davies teaches English Literature at the University of Dundee. She is the author of Women andArthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword (1996) and co-editor of Renaissance Drama by Women (Routledge, 1995).
