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Author Dowd, Michelle M

Title Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England
Published Florence : Taylor & Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Free and Easy as ones discourse"?: Genre and Self-Expression in the Poems and Letters of Early Modern Englishwomen -- 3 Domestic Papers: Manuscript Culture and Early Modern Women's Life Writing -- 4 "Many hands hands": Writing the Self in Early Modern Women's Recipe Books -- 5 Serial Identity: History, Gender, and Form in the Diary Writing of Lady Anne Clifford -- 6 Merging the Secular and the Spiritual in Lady Anne Halkett's Memoirs
7 Prefacing Texts, Authorizing Authors, and Constructing Selves: The Preface As Autobiographical Space -- 8 Structures of Piety in Elizabeth Richardson's Legacie -- 9 Intersubjectivity, Intertextuality, and Form in the Self-Writings of Margaret Cavendish -- 10 Margaret Cavendish's Domestic Experiment -- 11 "That All the World May Know": Women's "Defense-Narratives" and the Early Novel -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
Summary By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative stru
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Author Eckerle, Julie A
ISBN 9781317129370
1317129377