Author | : Mary Ellen Lamb |
File Size | : 47,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 24 April 2024 |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105131248523 |
Pages | : 524 pages |
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England 1550 1700 Early Tudor women writers by Mary Ellen Lamb Book PDF Summary
This volume includes leading scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon. The essays represent a range of theoretical approaches and provide valuable insights into the religious, social, economic and political contexts essential for understanding these writers' texts. The introduction surveys the development of the field as an interdisciplinary project involving literature, history, classics, religion and cultural studies.