Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 Isobel Grundy

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Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 by Isobel Grundy

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Examines the period 1640 to 1740 using recent developments in feminist and literary theory to assess the complex reactions of writers to the political and social changes of the period. Includes contributions by authors such as Elaine Hobby, Jeslyn Medoff and Kate Lilley.

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Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 by Isobel Grundy

Examines the period 1640 to 1740 using recent developments in feminist and literary theory to assess the complex reactions of writers to the political and social changes of the period. contributors include/ Elaine Hobby, Jeslyn Medoff, Carol Barash, Kate Lilley, Ros Ballaster, Catherine Sharrock, Diane Purkiss and Valerie Rumbold.

Part 1 Women: discourse so unsavoury - women's published writings of the 1650s; the daughters of Behn and the problem of reputation; the native liberty of the subject - configurations of gender and authority in the works of Mary Chudleigh, Sarah Fyge Egerton and Mary Astell. Part 2 Writing: true state within - women's elergy 1640-1740; seizing the means of seduction - fiction and feminine identity in Aphra Behn and Delarivier Manley; de-ciphering women and de-scribing authority - the writings of Mary Astell. Part 3 History: women's history? - writings by English nuns; producing the voice, consuming the body - women prophets of the 17th century; gender and status in dramatic discorse - Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle; the Jacobite vision of Mary Caesar.

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GOR002767501

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9780713457940

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0713457945

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Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 by Isobel Grundy

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Isobel Grundy

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Batsford Ltd

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19920205

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224

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Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 Isobel Grundy

Women, Writing, History, 1640-1740 by Isobel Grundy

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