Tudor and Stuart Women Writers"... a nuanced, carefully argued work that reveals how women writers of the Renaissance, whether upper-class aristocrats close to court, daughters of successful merchants, Protestants, or Catholics, are inevitably affected by the gender biases that infuse all levels of Renaissance society and letters." -- Sixteenth Century Journal "... quite effective at developing a critical vocabulary for analyzing the formal traits of early modern women's writing." -- Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature From the perspectives of feminism, Marxism, sociology, and cultural semiotics, Louise Schleiner examines both familiar and obscure Tudor and Stuart women writers in a comprehensive study of those women who managed to go beyond translations or diaries and find a more individual voice in their public texts. |
From inside the book
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... Male Self - Imaging as Government : Jonson , Bulstrode , and Ladies Southwell and Wroth 6 Factional Identities and Writers ' Energies : Wroth , the Countess of Bedford , and Donne 150 7 Popery and Politics : Lady Falkland's Return to ...
... male - enunciated ideologemes — i.e . , units of ( or Deleuzean " desiring machines " for producing ) cultural meaning . From a different angle , the marginal but speakable position of women within ideologically distinct religious ...
... male editors , I found myself amidst the underpinnings of current British patriarchy , some more worm - eaten than others . ( Only under " Gary Waller " could one find the Countess of Pembroke's original poems , not under Sidney ...
... male criers for all proclamations . School teachers were all male , public orators , town criers , ministers in church , and actors on the stage , even those playing the women's parts ! What must this universal absence of any but ...
... male dominance ? Did they at times develop sheltered female spaces , into which husbands , masters , lords , or vicars would hesitate to intrude ? — ( as my stepfather used to say that he would rather take a beating than have to put his ...
Contents
Lady Elizabeth HobyRussell | 30 |
The Countesses | 82 |
Wroth the Countess | 150 |
Theoretical Perspectives | 192 |
Works Cited or Consulted | 274 |