Description
| Product ID: | 9781108831154 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | World-Making Renaissance Women |
| Subtitle: | Rethinking Early Modern Women's Place in Literature and Culture |
| Authors: | Author: Brandie R. Siegfried, Pamela S. Hammons |
| Page Count: | 300 |
| Subjects: | Literature: history and criticism, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Shakespeare studies & criticism, Gender studies: women, English |
| Description: | The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced far beyond their moment. For scholars and students of English literature, this volume shows why Renaissance culture cannot be rightly understood when women writers are ignored. This book answers three simple questions. First, what mistaken assumptions do we make about the early modern period when we ignore women''s literary contributions? Second, how might we come to recognise women''s influence on the history of literature and culture, as well as those instances of outright pathbreaking mastery for which they are so often responsible? Finally, is it possible to see some women writers as world-makers in their own right, individuals whose craft cut into cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced well beyond their own moment? The essays in this volume pursue these questions through intense archival investigation, intricate close reading, and painstaking literary-historical tracking, tracing in concrete terms sixteen remarkable women and their world-shaping activities. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-12-02 |
