Attending to early modern women

Attending to early modern women / edited by Susan D. Amussen and Adele Seeff ; advisory editors, Jane Donawerth [and others].

"This volume continues and amplifies a series of conversations initiated in 1990 at the conference, "Attending to Women in Early Modern England," sponsored by the University of Maryland's Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies on the College Park campus." "The volum...

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Corporate Author: University of Maryland at College Park. Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
Other Authors: Amussen, Susan Dwyer, Seeff, Adele F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : University of Delaware Press, ©1998.
Series:Center for renaissance and baroque studies.
Subjects:
Literature, Modern > 15th and 16th centuries > History and criticism > Congresses.
Literature, Modern > 17th century > History and criticism > Congresses.
Literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Congresses.
Women and literature > Europe > History > 16th century > Congresses.
Women and literature > Europe > History > 17th century > Congresses.
Women in literature > Congresses.
Women in art > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Displacing and displeasing: writing about women in the early modern period / Natalie Zemon Davis
  • The phallacies of authorship: reconstructing the texts of early modern women writers / Josephine A. Roberts
  • Weaving with Clio and Moriscas of early modern Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry
  • The roles of women in challenging the canon of "great master" art history / Corine Schleif
  • Women's community and male spies: Erhard Schön's How seven women complain about their worthless husbands / Diane Wolfthal
  • Apostrophes to cities: urban rhetorics in Isabella Whitney and Moderata Fonte / Ann Rosalind Jones
  • Positioning herself: a renaissance-reformation diptych / Catharine Randall
  • Yellow ruffs and poisoned possets: placing women in early Stuart political debate / David Underdown
  • Changing our originary stories: renaissance women on education, and conversation as a model for our classrooms / Jane Donawerth
  • Putting women into the picture: gender and art history in the classroom / Sheila Ffolliott
  • The hubris of writing surveys, or a feminist confronts the textbook / Merry Wiesner-Hanks.

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