Redeeming Eve Women Writers of the English Renaissance |
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Author:
| Beilin, Elaine V. |
Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-63653-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $153.00 |
Book Description:
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An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches; shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by restriction to pious subject matter, by the doctrine that only silent women are virtuous, by criticism that praised women as patrons or muses and ignored t
An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches; shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by restriction to pious subject matter, by the doctrine that only silent women are virtuous, by criticism that praised women as patrons or muses and ignored t