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The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690: Volume Three by M. Suzuki

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.

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'...a thorough introduction to current directions of research on women writers during the period...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.' - C. S. Vilmar, CHOICE

About M. Suzuki

BERNADETTE ANDREA Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA VICTORIA E. BURKE Associate Professor of English, University of Ottawa, Canada KATHARINE GILLESPIE Associate Professor of Seventeenth-Century English and Colonial American Literature, Miami University of Ohio, USA PAMELA HAMMONS Associate Professor of English, University of Miami, USA THEODORA A. JANKOWSKI Professor of English, Penn State Wilkes-Barre, USA CLARE R. KINNEY Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia, USA CRISTINA MALCOLMSON Professor of English, Bates College, USA MEGAN MATCHINSKE Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA SHANNON MILLER is Professor of English, Temple University, USA PATRICIA PHILLIPPY Professor of English, Texas A&M University, USA MARGARET REEVES Assistant Professor in the Department of Critical Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada PAUL SALZMAN Reader in English Literature, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia MIHOKO SUZUKI Professor of English, University of Miami, USA SUSAN WISEMAN Professor of Seventeenth-Century Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MARION WYNNE-DAVIES Chair of English Literature, University of Surrey, UK

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Chronology Introduction; M.Suzuki PART I: NETWORKS, DEBATES, TRADITIONS, DISCOURSES Identifying as (Women) Writers; P.Salzman Channeling the Gender Debate: Legitimation and Agency in Seventeenth-Century Tracts and Women's Poetry; M.Matchinske All about Eve: Seventeenth Century Women Writers and the Narrative of the Fall; S.Miller English Civil War Women Writers and the Discourses of Fifth Monarchism; K.Gillespie PART II: MODES AND SITES Seventeenth-Century Women's Manuscript Writing; V.Burke Reading Seventeenth-Century Women's Letters; S.Wiseman Women's Self-Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Monuments; P.Phillippy PART III: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON LITERARY GENRES 'More lively, parfett, lasting, and more true': Mary Wroth's Indefensible Apologies for Poesy; C.Kinney Valuing Early Modern Women's Verse in the Twenty-first Century; P.Hammons Early Modern Englishwomen Dramatists (1610-1690): New Perspectives; M.Wynne-Davies History, Satire, and Fiction by British Women Writers in the Seventeenth Century; M.Reeves PART IV: REVISIONING CONTEXTS Critiquing the Sexual Economies of Early Modern Marriage in Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish's Plays; T.Jankowski 'The Empire of Man over the inferiour Creatures': British Women, Race, and Seventeenth-Century Science; C.Malcolmson Questioning Gender, War, and the 'Old Lie': The Military Expertise of Margaret Cavendish; J.Wright Women, Civil War, and Empire: The Politics of Translation in Katherine Philips's Pompey and Horace; M.Suzuki English Women's Writing and Islamic Empires, 1610-90; B.Andrea Bibliography Index

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Title

The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690: Volume Three by M. Suzuki

Author

M. Suzuki

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History of British Women's Writing

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Palgrave Macmillan

Year published

2011-01-19

Number of pages

339

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