Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters

Book Overview

Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754667383
• ISBN13: 9780754667384
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"