| Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Smith, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403991227 ISBN-13: 9781403991225 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences in comparison with Continental women writers and English male authors. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Modern - General |
| Dewey: 821.042 |
| LCCN: 2004065756 |
| Series: Early Modern Literature in History |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.08" W x 8.8" (0.99 lbs) 182 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |