Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621 e-bog
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This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers and of English male authors. In this focus on a single genre, Rosalind Smith examines the relationship between gender and genre in the early modern period, and the critical assumptions currently underpinning questions of feminine agency within ge...
E-bog
436,85 DKK
Forlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Udgivet
27 september 2005
Genrer
Literary studies: general
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780230513686
This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers and of English male authors. In this focus on a single genre, Rosalind Smith examines the relationship between gender and genre in the early modern period, and the critical assumptions currently underpinning questions of feminine agency within genre.