Description
This lively book surveys women writers in the sixteenth century and early seventeenth centuries. Its selection is vast, historically representative, and original, taking examples from twenty different, relatively unknown authors in all genres of writing, including poetry, fiction, religious works, letters and journals, translation, and books on childcare. It establishes new contexts for the debate about women as writers within the period and suggests potential intertextual connections with works by well-known male authors of the same time.
Individual authors and works are given concise introductions, with both modern and historical critical analysis, setting them in a theoretical and historicised context. All texts are made readily accessible through modern spelling and punctuation, on-the-page annotation and headnotes. The substantial, up-to-date bibliography provides a source for further study and research.
A revised edition of a definitive anthology of women's writing in the Renaissance.
About the Author
Randall Martin is professor of English, at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
Book Information
ISBN 9781408204993
Author Randall Martin
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Longman
Publisher Pearson Education Limited
Weight(grams) 736g
Dimensions(mm) 157mm * 233mm * 26mm