The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture : : From Mary Sidney to Aphra Behn / / Gary Waller.
The Female Baroque is a contribution to the revival since the 1980s of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English. Its originality is twofold: it links women's writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into dis...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction and Acknowledgements -- 1. The Labyrinthine Baroque -- 2. The Female Baroque -- 3. Catholic Female Baroque -- 4. Protestant Baroque -- 5. The Female Baroque in Court and Country -- 6. Lady Mary Wroth : The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus -- 7. From Baroque to Enlightenment: Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn -- Postscript -- About the Author -- Index |
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Summary: | The Female Baroque is a contribution to the revival since the 1980s of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English. Its originality is twofold: it links women's writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into discussion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva's study of Teresa of Avila, that 'the secrets of Baroque civilization are female'. [-]The book is built on a schema of recurring Baroque characteristics - narrativity, hyperbole, melancholia, kitsch, and plateauing, pointing less to surface manifestations and more to underlying ideological tensions. The crucial concept of the Female Baroque is developed in detail. Attention is then given particularly to Gertrude More, Mary Ward, Aemilia Lanyer, The Ferrar/Collet women, Mary Wroth, the Cavendish sisters, Hester Pulter, Anne Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, the latter two whose lives and writings point to the developing cultural transition to the Enlightenment.[-] |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789048551118 9783110689556 9783110696295 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704730 9783110704525 9783110696301 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9789048551118?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Gary Waller. |