Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Early Modern Literature in History) - Softcover

Book 10 of 49: Early Modern Literature in History

Pender, P.

 
9781349348589: Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Early Modern Literature in History)

Synopsis

An in-depth study of early modern women's modesty rhetoric from the English Reformation to the Restoration. This book provides new readings of modesty's gendered deployment in the works of Anne Askew, Katharine Parr, Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

PATRICIA PENDER is a postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published widely on feminism and the early modern period in essay collections and international journals including SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Women Writers: Elizabethan to Victorian and Huntingdon Library Quarterly.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780230362246: Early Modern Women's Writing and the Rhetoric of Modesty (Early Modern Literature in History)

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  0230362249 ISBN 13:  9780230362246
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Hardcover