Women, Race, and Writing in the Early Modern Period

By Elysabeth Grace and Patricia Parker

A brilliant interdiscipinary examination of women's writing in the era of European imperial expansion. Ground-breaking work by some of the most exciting scholars in contemporary criticism and theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415077788
• ISBN13: 9780415077781
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.9" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

A critical master-piece

This book is an amalgam of cultural studies, Feminism, and Post-colonial theory. Its particular importance lies in its successful inclusion of the issues of "race" and class within the focal issue of gender. The seventeen essays that make up this edition, interrogate the intersection between gender, race, and class in a plethora of influential texts written by both male and female Renaissance writers such as Othello, Urania, The Tragedy of Mariam, to name but few. Indeed, this book is of a great value especially for "interdisciplinary" readings of Renaissance culture.