Writing Women's Literary History

by Margaret J.M. Ezell and Margaret J.M. Ezell

Book Overview

Ezell critically examines these successful women's literary histories and applies to them the same self-conscious feminism that critics have applied to more traditional methods. Drawing both on French feminisms and on recent historicist scholarship, Ezell points us to new possibilities for the recovery of early modern women's literary history.

By championing the recovery of lost women writers and insisting on reevaluating the past,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185508X
• ISBN13: 9780801855085
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"