The History of British Women's Writing, 1500-1610 Volume Two

by Bicks, Caroline; Summit, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780230218345
• ISBN10: 0230218342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this new volume examines the diversity of early women's writing (from verse and songs to household records and recipes), offering a new paradigm for understanding women's shaping roles in the literary, religious, and political movements of the sixteenth century.

Author Biography

Caroline Bicks is Associate Professor of English at Boston, College, USA. Her publications include Midwiving Subjects in Shakespeare's England (2003) and articles in Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Modern Philology, and SEL, amongst others. Jennifer Summit is Professor of English at Stanford University, USA. She is the author of Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589(2000) and Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England (2008).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Chronology; E.Vyroubalová 
Introduction; C.Bicks & J.Summit 
PART I: READING AND WRITING
Reading Women; H.Brayman Hackel
Literary Circles and Coteries; J.Crawford
Women in Early English Print Culture; A.Coldiron
PART II: COMESTIC SETTINGS
Household Writing; C.Richardson
Maternal Advice; E.Snook
Letters; L.Magnusson
PART III: PLAYING SPACES
The Street; P.A.Brown
The Theater; M.Wynne-Davies
PART IV: THE TUDOR COURT
The Court; C.Sale
Elizabeth I; C.Coch
PART V: DEVELOPING HISTORIES
Religious Writing and Reformation; N.Bradley Warren
Race and Skin Color in Early Modern Women's Writing; S.Iyengar
Translation/Historical Writing; C.Laoutaris
Bibliography
Index