| Description |
1 online resource (x, 281 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : female voices, women writers, Godly coalitions -- The politics of the female voice -- Conscience and desire -- Elizabeth Cary and the "publike-good" -- "Not sparing kings" : Aemilia Lanyer -- Rachel Speght and the "criticall reader" -- Mary Wroth and the politics of liberty -- "Yokefellow, or slave" : Anne Southwell -- Epilogue : anonymity and "reasonable libertie" |
| Summary |
"The female voice was deployed by male and female authors alike to signal emerging discourses of religious and political liberty in early Stuart England. Christina Luckyj's important new study focuses critical attention on writing in multiple genres to show how, in the coded rhetoric of seventeenth-century religious politics, the wife's conscience in resisting tyranny represents the rights of the subject, and the bride's militant voice in the Song of Songs champions Christ's independent jurisdiction. Revealing this gendered system of representation through close analysis of writings by Elizabeth Cary, Aemilia Lanyer, Rachel Speght, Mary Wroth and Anne Southwell, Luckyj illuminates the dangers of essentializing female voices and restricting them to domestic space. Through their connections with parliament, with factional courtiers, or with dissident religious figures, major women writers occupied a powerful oppositional stance in relation to early Stuart monarchs and crafted a radical new politics of the female voice"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Christina Luckyj is Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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Liberty in literature.
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Women in literature.
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Religion and politics -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Religion and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Early modern
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English literature -- Women authors
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Liberty in literature
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Religion and literature
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Religion and politics
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Women in literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021044738 |
| ISBN |
9781108954525 |
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1108954529 |
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9781108960212 |
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1108960219 |
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