Title The polemics and poems of Rachel Speght / edited by Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (107 pages) Series Women writers in English 1350-1850 Women writers in English 1350-1850. Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Textual Introduction; Selected Bibliography; A Mouzell for Melastomus; Certaine Quaeres to the Bayter of Women; Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed; Appendix: A Contemporary Response to Speght's Mouzell: Marginalia in the Yale Copy Summary Rachel Speght (1597-?) was the first Englishwoman to identify herself as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This study discusses both her tract, "A Mouzell for Melastomus" (1617) and her volume of poetry, "Mortalities Memorandum, with a Dreame Prefixed" (1612) Analysis English poetry Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Women -- Poetry Feminism -- England -- History -- 17th century -- Sources LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. Feminism. Women. England. Genre/Form History. Poetry. Sources. Form Electronic book Author Lewalski, Barbara Kiefer, 1931-2018. ISBN 1423758625 9781423758624 1601299540 9781601299543 9780195086157 0195086155

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