Texts from the Querelle, 1521û1615: Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 1

by Benson,Pamela J.

• ISBN13: 9780754631125
• ISBN10: 0754631125
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and juxtaposing these two attitudes toward women in pairs or series of texts devoted exclusively to discussing womankind. This dialectic of attack on and defence of the female sex, known as the querelle des femmes (debate about women), was especially popular among authors and readers during the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries in England. The works included in these two volumes exemplify the content and the methods of debate in England during those two centuries. Volume two includes texts from 1616 through to 1640.

Table of Contents

Texts from the Querelle, 1521-1615

Preface by the General Editors

Introductory Note

Title page, Frontispiece, Part 1 (sigs. Aa2-Ff2) and Part 3 (sigs. Z2v-Z4v) in The boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (trans. Anslay, 1521)

The Defence Of Good Vvomen (1540)

The Scholehouse of women (1541?)

The prayse of all women called Mulieru[m] Pean (1542)

A Dyalogue defensyue for women (1542)

A Letter sent by the Maydens of London (1567)

The praise and Dispraise of Women (1569)

Iane Anger her Protection for Women (1588)

'The Praise of vertuous Ladies' (sigs. Q4-Tv) in The Wil of Wit (1597)

An Apologie For Women-Kinde (1605)

Title page and 'To The Vertvovs Reader' (sigs. f3-f3v) in Salve DEVS REX IVDÆ;ORUM (1611; STC 15227)

The Araignment Of Lewde, idle, froward, and vnconstant women (1615)

Preface by the General Editors

Introductory Note

Title page, 'To the Reader' (Alr-v), 'To the looser sort of women' (A2r-v), 'The Contents' (A6r-v), 'Proamium' (1-5), 'Chap. 1' (5-12), 'Chap. 8' (87-99) and 'Epilogue' (137-62) in Asylum Veneris, Or A Sanctvary for Ladies (1616)

A Movzell For Melastomvs (1617)

Appendix: A transcription of manuscript annotations

Ester hath hang'd Haman (1617)

The Worming of a mad Dogge (1617)

HIC MVLIER (1620)

H&Æ;C-Vir (1620)

Title page (A2r) and '[Paradox] VI. That it is possible to find some vertue in some Women' (sigs. C3v-C4v) in Ivvenilia (1633)

Frontispiece, Title page (A3r), 'To the Reader' [prose] (A4r-A7v), 'To the Reader' [verse] (A8r-A9v), 'To the Author' (A 10r-A11v), and pp. 142-200 of A Iuniper Lecture (1639)

The womens sharpe revenge (1640)

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