Women writing back/writing women back

Women writing back/writing women back: transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era

by Dijk, Suzanna van Gilleir, Anke Montoya, Alicia

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Interest in early modern women writers is on the rise. However, familiarity with their works varies greatly from one country to another, and resources to assess their historical significance remain insufficient. Yet empirical evidence suggests that women writers who are no longer well-known today played surprisingly varied roles in the literary field of early modern Europe. The papers collected in this volume address early modern female authorship from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eig…

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  • Full title :Women writing back/writing women back : transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era / edited by Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk.

Summary

Interest in early modern women writers is on the rise. However, familiarity with their works varies greatly from one country to another, and resources to assess their historical significance remain insufficient. Yet empirical evidence suggests that women writers who are no longer well-known today played surprisingly varied roles in the literary field of early modern Europe. The papers collected in this volume address early modern female authorship from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, ranging geographically from Portugal to Russia, and from Italy to Denmark. In partic.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Place of Publication:Leiden
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvi, 381 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789004193536, 9004193537, 1282952706, 9781282952706, 9786612952708, 6612952709
  • DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004184633.i-384
  • oclc:ocn697182449
  • LC Classification:PN721
  • Dewey Decimal:809/.89287094

Table of Contents

Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya -- 'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay -- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai -- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert -- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio -- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier -- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray -- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink -- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots -- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner -- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and ea…

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Europe European literature European literature -- History and crit… European literature -- History and crit… European literature -- History and crit… European literature -- Renaissance European literature -- Women authors Femmes et littérature -- Histoire. -- E… Frau History LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors Literature, Medieval Literature, Medieval -- History and cri… Littérature européenne -- Histoire et c… Littérature européenne -- Histoire et c… Littérature européenne -- Histoire et c… Littérature médiévale -- Histoire et cr… Schriftstellerin Women and literature

Writers

Dijk, Suzanna van Gilleir, Anke Montoya, Alicia

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