Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199273270)

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalized. Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, it argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows how these inflect their representations of gender. In this way both their texts and manner of presenting themselves as authors emerges as freshly pertinent to their male and female royalist contemporaries for whom supporting them could be an act of political self-definition.

Author: Hero Chalmers
ISBN-10: 0199273278
ISBN-13: 9780199273270
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/30/2004
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d