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Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence

Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence

by R. Smith
Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence

Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence

by R. Smith

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781403991225
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/27/2005
Series: Early Modern Literature in History
Edition description: 2005
Pages: 169
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

ROSALIND SMITH is a Lecturer in English at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published articles on gender and poetry in the early modern period and is preparing a monograph on Marian textual practice.

Table of Contents

Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women's Sonnet Sequences and Collections 'In a mirrour clere': Anne Lock's Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira's Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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