The History of British Women's Writing, 1610-1690

During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Popish Plot, women produced a wide variety writings in both manuscript and print. This volume, now available in paperback, represents recent scholarship that ha [...]
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During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Popish Plot, women produced a wide variety writings in both manuscript and print. This volume, now available in paperback, represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this tumultuous period. Topics include the category of the 'woman writer' and networks among writers; the interplay between pamphlet and literary culture; the prominence of religious discourse in women's writing; new perspectives on established genres such as poetry, drama, fiction; the recovery of until recently neglected sites of writing such as manuscripts and funeral monuments; reassessment of the value and import of the genre of letters; and new approaches to texts both now canonical and newly discovered through the lenses of sexuality, science and race studies, postcolonialism, orientalism, political thought, and military studies.