Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689
ISBN13: 9780199273270ISBN10: 0199273278
Hardback,
236 pages
Dec 2004,
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Description
Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition.Features
- Original examination of the work of three female writers of the seventeenth century.
- Puts female authors back on the map of seventeenth century literature.
