Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621 The Politics of Absence
Description
This study explores why women in the English Renaissance wrote so few sonnet sequences, in comparison with the traditions of Continental women writers and of English male authors. In this focus on a single genre, Rosalind Smith examines the relationship between gender and genre in the early modern period, and the critical assumptions currently underpinning questions of feminine agency within genre.
Keywords
Literary CriticismModernPoetrySocial ScienceGender StudiesAncient & ClassicalLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2005Book
Author(s)Rosalind Smith
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781403991225
LanguageEnglish
