9780199273270 / Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxford English Monographs) 1st Edition
by Oxford University Press; 1st edition (December 30, 2004) (Author)
Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers’ work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition.
Specification: Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Oxford English Monographs) 1st Edition 9780199273270
Weight
13 lbs
Dimensions
8.5 × 5.51 × 0.69 in
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