Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689

Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 by Hero Chalmers

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalised. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition.

insightful and illuminating readings..Ms. Chalmers provides an important contribution to the study of Philips. * Noel Chevalier, Scriblerian *
...the study is vauable, compelling and will open up interesting new avenues for future scholarship. * Lisa Walters, Early Modern Literary Studies *

Hero Chalmers is a freelance academic and member of the Cambridge University English Faculty. Julie Sanders is Professor of English Literature and Drama at the University of Nottingham. Sophie Tomlinson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.

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ISBN 13	9780199273270
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Title	Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689
Author	Hero Chalmers
Series	Oxford English Monographs
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2004-10-14
Number of pages	240
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