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 seventeenth 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674962435
• ISBN13: 9780674962439
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"