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Her Own Lifeby Elspeth Graham; Hilary Hind; Elaine Hobby; Helen Wilcox
Routledge 1989; US$ 39.95This collection contains substantial extracts from the work of twelve seventeenth-century women from different walks of life, writing in a variety of forms covering an enormous range of topics including violence, travel, children and God. more...
Women, Texts and Histories 1575-1760by Clare Brant; Diane Purkiss
Routledge 1992; US$ 43.95The essays offer new feminist analysis of the early modern period and show how women's writing may undermine many of the received assumptions on which the history of the period has depended. more...
A Literary History of Women's Writing in Britain, 1660-1789by Susan Staves
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 26.00Drawing on three decades of feminist scholarship, Susan Staves provides a comprehensive history of women's writing in Britain from the Restoration to the French Revolution. Arranged chronologically to emphasize the historical and literary contexts, this magisterial work includes a comprehensive bibliography and list of modern editions of the authors discussed. more...
The Practice of Quixotismby Scott Paul Gordon
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 80.00Modeling how to think simultaneously about postmodern theory and eighteenth-century texts, this work explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read. more...
Versions of Blacknessby Derek Hughes
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 21.00This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary. more...
Women's Writing in the British Atlantic Worldby Kate Chedgzoy
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 102.00Explores the work of women writers in the early modern British Atlantic world. more...
Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern Englandby Kimberly Anne Coles
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 33.00An important study reclaiming the importance of women in Protestant literary culture. more...
A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writingby Arturo Pacheco; Anita Pacheco
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 209.95This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Brings together more than twenty leading international scholars to provide the definitive survey volume to the field of early modern women's writing Examines individual texts, including works by Mary Sidney, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn Explores the historical context and generic diversity of early modern women's writing, as well as the theoretical issues that underpin its study Provides a clear sense of the full extent of women's contributions to early modern literary culture more...
Medieval Lyricby John C. Hirsh
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 129.95Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. Introduces readers to the rich variety of Middle English poetry. Presents poems of mourning and of celebration, poems dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and to Christ, poems inviting or disparaging love, poems about sex, and more. Reader-friendly - uses modernized letter forms, punctuation and capitalization,... more...
Women Writers and Familial Discourse in the English Renaissanceby Marion Wynne-Davies
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 90.00This book explores the development of familial discourse within a chronological frame, commencing with the More family and concluding with the Cavendish group. It explores the way in which the support of family groups enabled women to participate in literary production, whilst closeting them within a form of writing that encompassed style or theme. more...









