Writing Women in Jacobean England

By Barbara Kiefer Lewalski

Book Overview

When was feminism born - in the 1960s or in the 1660s? For England, one might answer: the early decades of the 17th century. James I was King of England, and women were expected to be chaste, obedient, subordinate, and silent. Some, however, were not, and these are the women who interest Barbara Lewalski - those who, as queens and petitioners, patrons and historians and poets, took up the pen to challenge and subvert the repressive patriarchal ideology of Jacobean England. Setting out to show how these women wrote themselves into their culture, Lewalski rewrites Renaissance history to include some of its most compelling - and neglected - voices.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674962427
• ISBN13: 9780674962422
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.3" x 0.6" x 9.5"