Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain

by Jane Donawerth, Linda Dove, Karen Nelson

In Tudor and Stuart Britain, women writers took active roles in negotiating cultural ideas and systems to gain power by participating in politics through writing, shaping the aesthetics of genre, and fashioning feminine gender, despite constraints on women.

Through the lens of cultural studies, the authors explore the ways in which women of this era worked to actually create culture. Articles cover five areas: women, writing, and material...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815628153
• ISBN13: 9780815628156
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"