Early Modern Women Writers and Memorialization

by Marion Wynne-Davies

Drawing upon modern theoretical precepts and presenting new research on tombs of English women writers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this study investigates the ways in which early modern women writers construct and are constructed by discourses of mortality. Marion Wynne-Davies analyses how women wrote about mortality, how they 'staged' death, how they were written about when they died and the construction of their tombs as a final...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409450090
• ISBN13: 9781409450092
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages