Figuring Modesty in Feminist Discourse Across the Americas, 1633-1700

By Tamara Harvey

Inventive in its approach, this study offers fresh readings of the arguments and practices of four seventeenth-century Euro-American women: Anne Bradstreet, Anne Hutchinson, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz, and Marie de l'Incarnation. Tamara Harvey offers a new way to think of corporeality as a device in literary and religious expressions of modesty by women, and explores how these women engaged in ongoing religious, political, scientific and social debates of the time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075466452X
• ISBN13: 9780754664529
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"