Women writing back/writing women back : transnational perspectives from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the modern era / / edited by Anke Gilleir, Alicia C. Montoya, Suzan van Dijk.
Interest in early modern women writers is on the rise. However, familiarity with their works varies greatly from one country to another, and resources to assess their historical significance remain insufficient. Yet empirical evidence suggests that women writers who are no longer well-known today pl...
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Superior document: | Intersections, v. 16 |
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Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 16. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (397 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: toward a new conception of women's literary history / Anke Gilleir and Alicia C. Montoya
- 'To promote God's praise and her neighbour's salvation'. Strategies of authorship and readership among mystic women in the later Middle Ages / Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay
- Gendering place: the role of place in Anne Krabbe's Ballad works / Anne-Marie Mai
- 'To make frequent assemblies, associations, and combinations amongst our sex.' Nascent ideas of female bonding in seventeenth-century England / Ina Schabert
- Women and literary sociability in eighteenth-century Lisbon / Vanda Anástacio
- Female writing and the use of literary byways. Pastoral drama by Maddalena Campiglia (1553-1595) / Philiep Bossier
- Prescriptions for women: alchemy, medicine and the renaissance Querelle des femmes / Meredith K. Ray
- The appropriation of the genre of nuptial poetry by Katharina Lescailje (1649-1711) / Nina Geerdink
- Madame De Maintenon Au Miroir de sa correspondance: réhabilitation du personnage et redécouverte d'une écriture féminine / Christine Mongenot and Hans Bots
- French women writers and heroic genres / Perry Gethner
- The tartar girl, the Persian princess, and early modern English women's authorship from Elizabeth II to to Mary Wroth / Bernadette Andrea
- A cloistered nun abroad: Arcangela Tarabotti's international literary career / Lara Lynn Westwater
- Traveller, pedagogue and cultural mediator: Marie-Elisabeth De La Fite and her female context / Ineke Janse
- Translation and intellectual reflection in the works of enlightened Spanish women: Inés Joyes (1731-1808) / Mónica Bolufer
- 'Nous voudrions que les femmes s'occupent de la littérature': traductions des romanciéres françaises en russie autour de 1800 / Elena Gretchanaia.