'This Double Voice' Gendered Writing in Early Modern England

by Clarke, Danielle; Clarke, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780312232207
• ISBN10: 0312232209
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Double Voice reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education, and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere and to render male negotiations of gender invisible and transparent.

Author Biography

Danielle Clarke is Professor of English at Boston College.

Elizabeth Clarke is Research Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(15)
Danielle Clarke
Female Authority and Authorization Strategies in Early Modern Europe	16	(25)
Jane Stevenson
`In a mirrour clere': Protestantism and Politics in Anne Lok's Miserere mei Deus	41	(20)
Rosalind Smith
`Formd into words by your divided lips': Women, Rhetoric and the Ovidian Tradition	61	(27)
Danielle Clarke
The Voices of Anne Cooke, Lady Anne and Lady Bacon	88	(15)
Alan Stewart
Old Wives' Tales Retold: the Mutations of the Fairy Queen	103	(20)
Diane Purkiss
Giving Time to Women: the Eternizing Project in Early Modern England	123	(19)
Amy Boesky
The `Double Voice' of Renaissance Equity and the Literary Voices of Women	142	(22)
Lorna Hutson
`For Worth, Not Weakness, Makes in Use but One': Literary Dialogues in an English Renaissance Family	164	(21)
Marion Wynne-Davies
`Whom the Lord with love affecteth': Gender and the Religious Poet, 1590-1633	185	(23)
Helen Wilcox
Ejaculation or Virgin Birth? The Gendering of the Religious Lyric in the Interregnum	208	(22)
Elizabeth Clarke
Unfettered Organs: the Polemical Voices of Katherine Philips	230	(19)
James Loxley
A Voice for Hermaphroditical Education	249	(21)
Frances Teague
Index	270