This Double Voice: Gendered Writing in Early Modern England

Book Overview

"The Double Voice" reassesses the notions of gender which have been used to analyze Renaissance literature. Rather than assuming that men and women write differently because of background, education and culture, it tries to unsettle the connections between the sex of the author and the constructions of gender in texts, and to reconsider the prevalent determinist model of reading which tends to consign women writers to the private, domestic sphere,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333677463
• ISBN13: 9780333677469
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"