Tudor and Stuart Women Writers

By Louise Schleiner

Book Overview

" . . . a nuanced, carefully argued work that reveals how women writers of the Renaissance, whether upper-class aristocrats close to court, daughters of successful merchants, Protestants, or Catholics, are inevitably affected by the gender biases that infuse all levels of Renaissance society and letters." --Sixteenth Century Journal

" . . . quite effective at developing a critical vocabulary for analyzing the formal traits of early modern women's writing." --Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature

From the perspectives of feminism, Marxism, sociology, and cultural semiotics, Louise Schleiner examines both familiar and obscure Tudor and Stuart women writers in a comprehensive study of those women who managed to go beyond translations or diaries and find a more individual voice in their public texts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253208866
• ISBN13: 9780253208866
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

a Must-read for Renaissnace Literature students

Louise Schleiner examines the women literary tradition of the early modern period. She focuses on the social, economic, and psychological conditions that either hindered or helped women writers in their struggle to acquire a textual and public space in a patriarchal culture that had perpetuate its discourse through silencing women and their public voice. Very foucauldian in its examination of power, Scleiner 's reading of the women writing experience, goes beyond the limitations of victimhood and silence that many critics have attributed to women and their literary tradition.