Write Or be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural ConstraintsBarbara Smith, Ursula Appelt Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years, little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the gap, applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to ongoing debates about canonicity, periodicity, disciplinarity, and the construction of knowledge. The essays in this volume reflect today's sophisticated critical thinking, and represent a broad range of approaches and methodologies. Topics covered include contextualizing the self; female discursive strategies; religious discourses and gender; writing a female space; negotiating power and desire; female writing and the marketplace/publishing; and revisions of male-dominated poetic conventions and traditions. |
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... Reference works compiled in the 1980s differ in their approach . In 1987 Janet Todd suggested that ' Mrs Taylor ' might be Behn herself ( A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 301 ) , and Todd's British Women Writers : A ...
... Reference works compiled in the 1980s differ in their approach . In 1987 Janet Todd suggested that ' Mrs Taylor ' might be Behn herself ( A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 301 ) , and Todd's British Women Writers : A ...
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... reference to two powerful men : her father , Dr Ralph Cudworth , the Master of Christ's College , Cambridge and an important member of the Cambridge Platonists , and the philosopher John Locke , with whom she contracted a friendship in ...
... reference to two powerful men : her father , Dr Ralph Cudworth , the Master of Christ's College , Cambridge and an important member of the Cambridge Platonists , and the philosopher John Locke , with whom she contracted a friendship in ...
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... reference here is to leaving aside the fleshly body , the female form with its gendered codes for reading it , and appearing as one truly ' is ' rather than as one is perceived to be . The reader is prepared for this turn to gender by ...
... reference here is to leaving aside the fleshly body , the female form with its gendered codes for reading it , and appearing as one truly ' is ' rather than as one is perceived to be . The reader is prepared for this turn to gender by ...
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