Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Books
  3. The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing
  • Cited by 8
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2010
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9781139002691
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521885270
Collection:
Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects:
Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest, British History after 1450, History
Series:
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Information

Book description

Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500–1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters, diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues, and by chronologies that situate women's writings alongside political and cultural events.

Reviews

'This welcome volume showcases how far the study of early modern women's writing has come in the last few decades.'

Source: The English Historical Review

'This volume serves as an excellent introduction to early modern English women’s writing. The collection will be of use to anyone trying to get to grips with the breadth and variety of early modern women’s writing.'

Source: History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland

Refine List

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

Contents

Contents

Metrics

Altmetric attention score

Full text views

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

Book summary page views

Total views: 0 *
Loading metrics...

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between #date#. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

Usage data cannot currently be displayed.