TY - BOOK AU - Chedgzoy,Kate AU - Bell,Maureen AU - Chedgzoy,Kate AU - Clarke,Danielle AU - Hackett,Helen AU - Hansen,Melanie AU - Hanson,Melanie AU - Hodgkin,Katharine AU - Hodgson-Wright,Stephanie AU - Pearson,Jacqueline AU - Price,Bronwen AU - Spargo,Tamsin AU - Trill,Suzanne AU - Wiseman,Susan TI - Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing T2 - Renaissance Texts and Studies : RTS SN - 9781853311086 AV - PR428.F45 V65 1996eb U1 - 820.9/9287 21 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - Women authors KW - Feminism and literature KW - History KW - 16th century KW - Great Britain KW - 17th century KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Renaissance KW - England KW - Sex role in literature KW - Women and literature KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Notes on Contributors --; Introduction: 'Voice that is Mine' --; The Word and the Throne: John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women --; Engendering Penitence: Nicholas Breton and 'the Countesse of Penbrooke' --; Women Writers and Women Readers: The Case of Aemilia Lanier --; The Canonization of Elizabeth Cary --; Dionys Fitzherbert and the Anatomy of Madness --; The Torture of Limen a: Sex and Violence in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania --; The Iconography of the Blush: Marian Literature of the 1630s --; Playing the 'Masculine Part': Finding a Difference within Behn's Poetry --; Read Within: Gender, Cultural Difference and Quaker Women's Travel Narratives --; Contra-dictions: Women as Figures of Exclusion and Resistance in John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont's Narratives --; Seditious Sisterhood: Women Publishers of Opposition Literature at the Restoration --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Voicing Women offers fresh, theoretically inspired readings of women Renaissance writers, as well as detailed critical introductions and notes. It reveals the extent of the material restraints on women's expression in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illustrating the difficulties faced by women writers and their strategies to overcome them. The use of female voices in male-authored texts and the different ways in which the body is portrayed by male and female writers is discussed in detail, and there are revelations about the religious and political contexts of the women's work. This will be an invaluable resource for all those studying Renaissance texts UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780585122601 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780585122601 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780585122601/original ER -