Writing Women's Literary History by Margaret Ezell

Writing Women's Literary History by Margaret Ezell

Drawing both on French feminisms and on recent historicist scholarship, Ezell points us to new possibilities for the recovery of early modern women's literary history.

Ezell's book is radical and revisionary, and especially interesting in its specificity and concentration on a neglected period of female writingShe is not afraid to take issue with established, even sacred, ideas in feminist writing, or to suggest that feminist literary criticism and history has been limited by its own prejudices and acceptance of questionable definitions of what is good and valid... Establishes many lost and missing names and texts within the margins of female literary history. -- Siv Jansson Yearbook of English Studies From 'The Myth of Judith Shakespeare,' to 'Writings by Early Quaker Women,' Ezell's critique cuts a broad swath through women's literature. -- Elaine Gale Boston Phoenix One hopes that her book will be read not only by scholars who have long agreed with her premise, but also by a wider audience that is unfamiliar with Renaissance genres and modes of publication. Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Margaret J. M. Ezell is a professor of English at Texas A & M University. She is the author of The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family and editor of The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh.

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ISBN 13	9780801855085
ISBN 10	080185508X
Title	Writing Women's Literary History
Author	Margaret Ezell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	1997-01-03
Number of pages	216
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