Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760 by Diane Purkiss

Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760 by Diane Purkiss

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Summary

The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended.

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Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760 by Diane Purkiss

The shared aim of these important new critical interventions into the early modern period is to make fresh feminist attempts to uncover the writings of Elizabethan and Jacobean women. Subject to silence, censorship and manipulation in the terms of overriding political concerns of the day, the feminist history of the early modern period is still a largely unwritten story. New feminist analysis can expose the conditions of production in which the history of the period was constructed: this revealing new Collection thereby exposes the untold stories which underpin the official texts. By beginning to explore this period from women's point of view, Women, Texts and Histories shows the crucial and fascinating ways in which women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended.
CLARE BRANT is a Senior Lecturer in English at King's College London, UK. She has previously held posts at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She has co-edited three essay collections and published numerous articles on eighteenth-century literature and culture.
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ISBN 13 9780415053709
ISBN 10 0415053706
Title Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760
Author Diane Purkiss
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1992-06-04
Number of pages 320
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