Barbara Smith and Ursula Appelt
Ashgate
Hardback
306
2001
Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the gap applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to ongoing debates about canonicity periodicity disciplinarity and the construction of knowledge.The essays in this volume reflect today's sophisticated critical thinking and represent a broad range of approaches and methodologies. Topics covered include contextualizing the self female discursive strategies religious discourses and gender writing a female space negotiating power and desire female writing and the marketplace/publishing and revisions of male-dominated poetic conventions and traditions.
Ashgate
Hardback
306
2001
Although the field of early modern women's studies has blossomed in recent years little attention has been paid to women poets of the period. This new collection is specifically designed to fill the gap applying new critical methodologies and theories to this group of early modern writers. Write or Be Written also contributes to ongoing debates about canonicity periodicity disciplinarity and the construction of knowledge.The essays in this volume reflect today's sophisticated critical thinking and represent a broad range of approaches and methodologies. Topics covered include contextualizing the self female discursive strategies religious discourses and gender writing a female space negotiating power and desire female writing and the marketplace/publishing and revisions of male-dominated poetic conventions and traditions.