ROYALIST WOMEN WRITERS, 1650-1689 by Hero Chalmers ( 9780199273270 )

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ROYALIST WOMEN WRITERS, 1650-1689

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ISBN 10:

0199273278

ISBN 13:

9780199273270

Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 October, 2004

Series:

Oxford English Monographs

Pages:

240

Description:

Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, Royalist Women Writers 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.

Synopsis:

Royalist Women Writers aims to put women back on the map of seventeenth-century royalist literature from which they have habitually been marginalised. 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.

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2 halftones

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Oxford University Press

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Non-returnable

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